Record Number: 33035

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘You ask me, with a suggestion of triumph, what I … think of Nietzsche now? I have only now begun to read the man …’

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Oct 1914 and 28 Nov 1914

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Cheriton
county: Kent
specific address: Shorncliffe Camp

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:

Charles Hamilton Sorley

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 May 1895

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

2/Lt, 7th Suffolk Regiment

Religion:

Agnostic

Country of Origin:

Scotland

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:

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Title:

[unknown]

Genre:

Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33035

Source:

Print

Author:

Charles Hamilton Sorley

Editor:

Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Title:

The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

n/a

Page:

204

Additional Comments:

Letter to Master, Marlborough School, 28 November 1914, Shorncliffe

Citation:

Charles Hamilton Sorley, Jean Moorcroft Wilson (ed.), The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley, (London, 1990), p. 204, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33035, accessed: 14 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

The date range is speculative and based on the dates of the last two letters to his old school Master.