Record Number: 25751
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am [...] reading and dipping into and re-dipping into your blue volume ["The Holy Mountain"]. Fact is I've just banged it down this minute--and I shan't look at it now for some weeks.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 14 Sep 1909 and 30 Sep 1909
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Aldington, Nr Hythe
county: Kent
(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:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Holy Mountain
Genre:Other religious, Fiction, Politics, political social and religious satire presented as fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsMacmillan(?) 1909
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:25751
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:4
Page:274
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Stephen Reynolds, undated, probably September 1909, Aldington.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911, (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 274, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=25751, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
See also record 24778