Record Number: 28934

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'In the vol entitled "Lear of the Steppes" only the first story is really worth reading. The other two ["Acia" and "Faust"] Turg[enev] wrote in French I believe first and they are not good specimens of his art.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1898 and Jan 1910

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

Aldington, Nr Hythe
Kent

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:

Ivan Turgenev

Title:

A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Heinemann 1898, translation by Constance Garnett

Provenance

owned
sent by translator's husband

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28934

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

2007

Vol:

9

Page:

141

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Michael Holland dated December 1909-January 1910, Aldington.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923, (Cambridge, 2007), 9, p. 141, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28934, accessed: 04 October 2024

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Additional Comments:

See also record ID 26475.