Record Number: 20539
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'All I can say is that I am quite enthusiastic about the work ["A Modern Utopia"]. From the first line of the preface to the closing sentence I feel in touch with a more accessible Wells - a Wells mellowed, as it were in the meditation of the three books of which this last one is certainly the nearest to my understanding and the most commanding to my assent.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 11 Apr 1905 and 25 Apr 1905
Country:Italy
Timen/a
Place:city: Capri
county: Napoli
specific address: probably Villa di Maria
(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:Italy
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:A Modern Utopia
Genre:Fiction,
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Chapman and Hall,1905
Provenanceowned
Inscribed copy from author, inscription dated 10 April 1905
Source Information:
Record ID:20539
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:n/a
Page:234-235
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to H.G.Wells dated 25 April 1905, Capri.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907, (Cambridge, 1988), p. 234-235, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20539, accessed: 29 September 2024
Additional Comments:
The text was the third of a sequence starting with 'Anticipations' 1901 and followed by 'Mankind in the Making' 1903 a text which disturbed Conrad (see fn.1, p.235 of source text and also letters of 19 September, 23-25 September and 2 October 1903, pp.61-65 of source text. See also RED ID 20387.