Record Number: 28588
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I will confess at once that I have read the book ["The Reconnaissance"] once only, and that of course is not enough;[...].The subject in itself is certainly a very difficult one because of its deep nature and its necessarily superficial aspects.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1916 and 27 Sep 1918
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:Orlestone nr. Ashford
Kent
Capel House
(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:Theodore James Gordon Gardiner
Title:The Reconnaissance
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsChapman & Hall, 1914
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28588
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:2002
Vol:6
Page:273-4
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Major Gordon Gardiner, dated 27 September 1918, Capel House
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919, (Cambridge, 2002), 6, p. 273-4, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28588, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
See p.xli for biographical information on author. Date range presumes that Conrad only read this text after he met its author in 1916 in Edinburgh,(see fn.2,p.266 of source text.) The place of reading is presumed to be Capel House but could also have been Edinburgh.