the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Edmund Candler : Siri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life

'Many thanks for the inscribed copy. [...]. On the 28th May I finished correcting the last pages of "Rescue" [...]. The same evening I picked up "Sri Ram" as I limped to bed, and went on reading it through the still, very still, hours of night to the end, marvelling and musing over the pages.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edmund Candler : Siri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life

'I ought to have thanked you before for the book ["Siri Ram"] which I read directly it reached my hands.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edmund Candler : The Sepoy

'Ever so many thanks for copy of "[The] Sepoy". Everything you write is a matter of most sympathetic interest to me; and in the case of this book I must say I enjoyed thoroughly in every way, in the facts, in the presentation and in the spirit of the writing itself.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edmund Candler : Abdication

'"Abdication" arrived four of five days ago. How short the book is and how much you have managed to put into it. As you may imagine I read it at once.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edmund Candler : The General Plan

'That's first rate stuff. I have read all but two of the stories, which'll have their turn this afternoon and I shall take up your copy on Monday myself and deliver it to Pinker with my own hands.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

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