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The Literary Lounger: Dogs

... of a [Coniimted over lea f. POLISH-BORN-- BUT ONE OF THE GREATEST ENGLISH NOVELISTS MR. JOSEPH CONRAD AS SAVA SEES HIM. From the Caricature by Sava. Mr. Joseph Conrad was born in 1857 of Polish parents, and is a Master in the Merchant Service. His first ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2781 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Yeats Family

... Yeats Family. London, August 11, 1924. I have read a hundred biographies in the various newspapers concerning the late Joseph Conrad. I think, on the whole, I like best the summary of his work contained in a leading article in The Manchester Guardian, ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2639 | Page: 14 | 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 

Pacifism, Publicity, and Poetic Prose

... Alec IVaugh with his wife, Joan, and their baby, taken at the novelist's house, Oswalds-al-Bridge, near Canterbury, where Joseph Conrad lived for many years ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1276 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. By L. P. HARTLEY. JOSEPH CONRAD has been a little out of fashion the last few years, but he still has his disciples, and among them none is more distinguished than Mr. Graham Greene. Not that Mr. Greene is an imitator. His attitude ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1480 | Page: 58 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: You Never Know Your Luck

... manner nr\ rtnn iifi-vtil/1 +/xr* n mr\monJ nnrtrorn in 1JLI LD1JC WUUIU tx II1U111L.11L ULOliaiU LV_ give a place to Mr. Joseph Conrad. A new book by him is always an event in my eyes. It is clearly also an event in the eyes of that mysterious person, the ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1915
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1428 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: ANNA CHRISTIE, AT THE STRAND; ITALIAN MARIONETTES, AT THE SCALA; AREN'T WE ALL? AT THE GLOBE

... gripping by moments in the creating of atmospheres reminiscent of Jack London's John Barleycorn, and in expression of Joseph Conrad; but, by the method of the actors, the words became torrential and weary ing, and much of their beauty and their power ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1518 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Conrad

... have approached their task in so modest a spirit of self- abnegation as M. Jean Aubry in the two handsome volumes of Joseph Conrad's Life and Letters which he has edited. He has sternly forbidden himself criticism and discursion, though the self-denying ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2835 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE: SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE; THE HUNTED; AURORA DAWN; CLOSE QUARTERS

... literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. I could well believe that Mr. Guerard had studied the Brontes and Joseph Conrad, and that Mr. Wouk is an enthusiast about Sterne and Anatole France, while neither of them shows any sign of caring for ...

Published: Wednesday 04 February 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1356 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

OUR BOOKSHELF: OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE; THE HEART OF THE MATTER; ALL THE KING'S MEN; THE BRIGHT PROMISE; THE ..

... (haber and haber 10s. bd.) THE VOICE OF THE CORPSE. By Max Murray. (Michael Joseph 8s. bd.) THE HEART OF THE MATTER. When Joseph Conrad died in 1924 there seemed to have died with him a whole literary tradition. He had no immediate followers and a stream ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1367 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

THE LIBRARY: Famous Novelists Active, After All!

... J i (Fisher Unwin.) Little Stories of Courtship. By Mary Stuart Cutting. (Hodder.) jjw The Mirror of the Sea. By Joseph Conrad. (Methuen I The Baroness Orczy The popular playwright and author has just published a new Scarlet Pimpernel story, entitled ...

Published: Wednesday 10 October 1906
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1675 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

SOME NEW BOOKS OF THE MOMENT: THE EPIC OF JAN SMUTS

... his back upon it, though in his heart he had he-rd the call, which later comes again. The Shadow-Line: A Confession. By Joseph Conrad. (Dent.) 5s. The purpose of this book is expressed in the query on the outside cover Why did the captain and the silent ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1917
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1484 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review