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A LITERARY LETTER: Have the Clergy Deteriorated?

... Thomas Wise's wonderful bibliographies, making the eleventh for which he is respon sible; that is to say, A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad, which, although marked as printed for private circulation only, can, I think, be obtained from one or two booksellers ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1921
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2085 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A Novel with a Style

... A LITERARY LETTER A Novel with a Style. al z\| London, February 2, 1914. Mr. Joseph Conrad published his first novel in 1895-- Almayer's Folly-- and, as I think, his best novel, The Nigger of the Narcissus in 1897. He is responsible for some eighteen ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1914
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2039 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

Under Western Eyes

... Under Western Eyes. By Joseph Conrad. Methuen The Slav never fails of fascination for us, Christian though he be, and European as we fondly think him; yet so exotic a compound of the barbaric and the mystic, at once so simple, so elusive, and so cynical ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 975 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

OUR WEEKLY BOOK-LETTER

... Food of the Gods. By II. G. Wells. (Macmillan 6j.) The Truants. By A. E. W. Mason. (Smith, Elder 6s.) Nostromo. By Joseph Conrad. (Harper: 6s.) Theophano. By Frederic Harrison. (Chapman and Hall 6s.) Lindley Kays. By Barry Pain. (Methuen: 6j.) Hearts ...

Published: Wednesday 12 October 1904
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1048 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

THE SHORT STORY BOOK FALLACY

... which it will, some day or night, exactly fit. I feel very much that way towards A Set of Six, the short story volume by Joseph Conrad (Methuen), which, with a few others, I havS Sway with me at the moment. Mr. Conrad calls these tales respectively romantic ...

Published: Wednesday 26 August 1908
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1028 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Younger Generation

... was long for sale in a London bookseller's and the author of Rhoda Fleming wrote an introduction to it. Now we have Mrs. Joseph Conrad under taking the same brave task, and her husband writes a preface with the usual distinction of which he is a master. ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1923
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2132 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

WHAT WE THINK OF THEM: Reviews of Some of the New Books

... when it has been somewhat difficult to obtain. The present edition is graced by a highly-appreciative preface by the late Joseph Conrad. In War and Peace Messrs. Heinemann have produced a masterpiece of modern publishing over fifteen hundred pages in clear ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 965 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... interest for literary folk is undoubtedly Mr. Joseph Conrad's Youth. Here is an extract from a letter by one of our fore most novelists a generous appreciation of a brother author Have you seen the volume Joseph Conrad has just published-- Youth and two other ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1903
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2503 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Centenary of Blackwood's Magazine

... A LITERARY LETTER The Centenary of Blackwood's Magazine. London, April 9, 1917. A new book by Mr. Joseph Conrad is a literary event to many of us, and so it has been for nearly a quarter of a century. Since Mr. George Meredith died and Mr. Thomas Hardy ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2456 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Log

... chosen, and Major Dawson himself is an ideal story-teller. And in what other book could you hope to find a foreword by Joseph Conrad and an introduction by the Prince of Wales (i Continued on page 522) A BYSTANDER CONTRIBUTOR Mr. A. A. Thomson, whose ...

Published: Wednesday 14 November 1923
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1220 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

Victorian Women

... 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 Literary Lounger: Genius

... artistic ideal. Very recently two of the greatest figures in European litera ture have gone from us Anatole France and Joseph Conrad. Fun damentally different in every other respect, they both possessed the common characteristic that they wrote only with ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2654 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review