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Record 29009

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The first words of Conrad's first book ["Almayer's Folly"] were pencilled on the fly-leaves and margins of "Madame Bovary".'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1889 and 1894
Country: unknown
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Joseph Conrad
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender n/a
Date of Birth 3 Dec 1857
Socio-economic group: Gentry
'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility
Occupation: Master mariner
Religion: Roman Catholic
Country of origin: Poland
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Gustave Flaubert
Title: Madame Bovary
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: first published 1857
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 29009  
Source - Print  
  Author: Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1924
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 14
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer), Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (London, 1924), p. 14, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29009, accessed: 20 May 2013

Additional comments:

See also records ID 18526 for a re-reading of this text while in South Australia, and ID 25769 for a reference to repeated readings.

 

 

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