Record Number: 20387
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'There is any amount of masterly pages. I have not read all of them as you may imagine. [...] Yes the "virtue" of the book is great.' Interspersed and following are several lines of warm praise for Wells's new book.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 18 Sep 1903 and 2 Oct 1903
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent Farm
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:3 Dec 1857
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility
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:
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Text Being Read:
Author:H. (Herbert) G. (George) Wells
Title:Mankind in the Making
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Chapman and Hall, 1903
Provenanceowned
sent with inscription 18th September 1903 as gift from author.
Source Information:
Record ID:20387
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1988
Vol:3
Page:61-62
Additional Comments:
Letter to H.G.Wells dated 19th September, 1903, Pent Farm. See also additional comments about two subsequent letters.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907, (Cambridge, 1988), 3, p. 61-62, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20387, accessed: 01 October 2024
Additional Comments:
This was according to fn.2. p.61 of source text the first of three letters discussing this book in detail. The other two are dated 23-25 September 1903,(pp.62-64 of source text) which consists of a very detailed critique, and 2nd October 1903 (pp.65-66 of source text), in which Conrad comments on his reaction to a second reading.