Record Number: 27611

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am proud to learn that there is one [a phrase in "Lord Jim"] worthy to serve as an epigraph to one of the books of "Les Caves du Vatican". What a beautiful start! What things you have put in the so characteristic and interesting pages of this fine beginning!'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1914 and 8 Jan 1914

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Joseph Conrad

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

3 Dec 1857

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry
'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility

Occupation:

Master mariner and author

Religion:

Roman Catholic

Country of Origin:

Poland

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

André Gide

Title:

Les Caves du Vatican (Book 1)

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: see additional information

Publication Details

1914 Gallimard Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27611

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1996

Vol:

5

Page:

331-2

Additional Comments:

Letter in French from Joseph Conrad to André Gide 8 January 1914, Capel House.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916, (Cambridge, 1996), 5, p. 331-2, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27611, accessed: 20 March 2025

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Additional Comments:

It is not clear from the evidence in this and an earlier letter dated 31 December 1913, whether Conrad was reading proofs of what was presumably the first of the several books comprising this work. The letter of 31 December 1913 celebrates the imminent appearance of the book and the fn.(1) on p.324 of the source text states that the work was then in press.