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... biographies are very rare, good ones nearly as scarce. Mrs. Jessie Conrad's story of the domestic life of her husband, Joseph Conrad and His Circle (Jarrold's 18s.), is extremely difficult to place in the scale. It certainly is not an attempt to assess ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1145 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

The Marriage Tangle

... predisposed to listen respectfully to a woman like Mrs. Conrad, and those who have loved his books will open her volume Joseph Conrad and His Circle (Jarrolds, 18s.) with a livelier emotion than that of mere respect. Un fortunately, Mrs. Conrad does not ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1935
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1374 | Page: 57 | Tags: Review 

The WORLD of BOOKS Thomas Wood Tells His Story in True Thomas, a Vividly Written Autobiography: A. E. W. Mason ..

... Edition. Illustrated. 7s. fid. Through Forbidden Tibet. By Harrison Forman. I Illustrated. 18s. JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD.-- Joseph Conrad: Some Aspects of the Art I of the Novel. By Edward Crankshaw. 8s. 6d. Letters from Prison. By Ernst Toller. Trans- I lated ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2372 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

Films of the Day: Sabotage, Lethal and Musical

... does, a sincere, convincing performance. John Loder and Desmond Tester are also in the film, which is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel, and is now at the Tivoli ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1936
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1000 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA

... different from suspense. Criti cism should be constructive. Therefore let this brilliant pro ducer, since he appears to like Joseph Conrad, leave buses and bombs and give us a film of Nostromo or Almayer's Folly, or even that lovely book, Victory, if Shepherd's ...

Published: Wednesday 23 December 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1229 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

VARIETY for the BOOKSHELF: Jacob Epstein's Autobiography: A Book for Wine-Lovers: Historical Miniatures: ..

... characters as Lord Beaverbrook', George Bernard Shaw, Alfred Einstein, Haile Selassie, Lord Fisher, the Duke of Marlborough, Joseph Conrad and R. 13. Cunningham Grahame. In this book Mr. Jacob Epstein has let the sparks fly with the same vigour as presumably ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1851 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... during his Paris period, his pen-pictures of well-known persons who have sat to him for their portraits. Among them are Joseph Conrad, Bernard Shaw, Augustus John, Cunninghame-Graham, Linstein, KaDinaranatn Tagore, Lord Fisher, Lord Beaverbrook, the Emperor ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1969 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... CINEMA CAMEOS. By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE most unusual film of this or many weeks past is VICTORY (Plaza), from the Joseph Conrad novel of ideals and adven ture in the sticky South Seas. It is pos sibly a little more unusual than the producers reckoned for ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1242 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

Myself at the Pictures: Good Material and Bad

... changeless, ever-changing high-roads. Whatever its origin the phrase sums up the informing spirit of that great writer, Joseph Conrad, which is at once mysterious and incommunicable. The commonplace that all art reveals itself in its own terms and cannot ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1195 | Page: 6 | Tags: Review 

UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN AID: Its Real Meaning--Sir Walter Citrine's Odyssey; H. V. Morton on Fighting Ground; A ..

... and in doing so scored some immediate and spectacular triumphs, which ranged in the literary field from the books of Joseph Conrad to those of Mrs. E. M. Hull. If some of his stories are apocryphal, they bear retelling in his own lighthearted manner ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1315 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review