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The Library: How Long Should a Novel Be?

... average jog-trot novel, such as has to be written by the author who makes a living out of it. If Mr. H. G. Wells, or Mr. Joseph Conrad, or Mr. Arnold Bennett, or any other licensed weaver, like to spin the v^arn out half as long again, that is for them to ...

Published: Wednesday 28 September 1910
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 713 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Log: A Civil List Mystery

... demand, and never were there more media for it. One is, therefore, a little surprised at the grant of £100 per annum to Mr. Joseph Conrad, who surely would find little difficulty in making that sum a score of times annuallyr would he but condescend to adapt ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1911
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 940 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LET TER: A Great and Valuable Series The Vogue of Peacock English and German Misunderstandings

... for example, four novels that may rank as literature, the authors being Henry James, Anthony Hope, Arnold Bennett, and Joseph Conrad. I hope to write about all four in due., course. Leaving fiction and coming to belles lettres I note a new edition of the ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1911
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2492 | Page: 18 | 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 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... Hueffer is known more especially as the author of The Fifth Queen, The Fifth Queen Crowned, and as collaborator with Mr. Joseph Conrad in Romance and The Inheritors. Miss Violet Hunt, who is Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer's second wife, is best known as author ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1305 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Most Popular Novels of the Hour--Mrs. Alfred Trench--James the Second in Exile

... here are at least a dozen such novels of the moment:-- Hilda Lessways; By Arnold Bennett. Methuen Under Western Eyes. By Joseph Conrad. (Methuen.) ft Peter and Wendy. By J. M. Barrie. Hodder Stough- A ton.) A Ship's Company. By W. W. Jacobs. llodder Stough- ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1911
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2349 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY.LOUNGER: MASTER MARINER AND MASTER MIND; Joseph Conrad's Ego

... '..'.'.'.■.■'■■-■.■Wu) II. -in J.. ..nl,!i (H MASTER MARINER AND MASTER MIND Joseph Conrad's Ego. It is impossible to deal adequately in a column with Mr. Joseph Conrad's ego, as revealed by himself. His are not as other Reminiscences. cences. The ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1234 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The late Richard Middleton--The New Novels of the Autumn--New Light on James III

... has one en titled The Lost World, another is Mr. E. V. Lucas's London Lavender. Mr. H. G. Wells's Marriage is a third, Joseph Conrad's 'Twixt Land and Sea a fourth. TV/T r. H. B. Marriott Watson's new novel is entitled The Big Fish. Mr. Jeffery Farnol ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1912
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2372 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

'Twixt Land and Sea

... 'Twixt Land and Sea. By Joseph Conrad. {J. M. Dent and Sous.) Mr. Conrad has long been known for a lover of the sea. Like Jacob for Rachel, he has served for her, and not so much to make her his as to make himself hers. There are those of us who would ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 450 | Page: 46 | 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