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AUTHORS AND THEIR WAYS

... did. Hawthorne worked in silence and solitude. As for Carlyle! His writing room was padded ! Noise drove him to rage. Joseph Conrad’s writing room in his Kent home looks out on trim grass, box hedges, and (:;)lendid trees., Yet when I told him I envied ...

Published: Friday 18 July 1924
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A WORLD PARLIAMENT OF BUSINESS

... world over at the Conven tion is evidence of the truth of the main contentions stated in this article I think it is Mr. Joseph Conrad who exclaims, or makes one of his characters exclaim, Give me a word, and I will rule the world. And words are instanced ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1694 | Page: 48 | Tags: Photographs 

A LITERARY LETTER: The First Edition Craze

... price. My friend was anxious not to make the mistake which people made who bought Robert Louis Stevenson's stories or Joseph Conrad's in the years that are gone, and then threw them away, ignorant of the fact that a book which twenty years ago was valued ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2087 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS AND AUTHORS. SHOCKERS IN NEW WORLDS. Sy R. ELLIS ROBERTS

... old friends, the modern shocker and the costulle shocker transported to the countrlc-s of Mr. Charles , Marriott and Mr. Joseph Conrad. It is ' the former that our shocker comes off best. Mr. Sullivan has been very successful in that delicate and difficult ...

Published: Tuesday 22 July 1924
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 385 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOLIDAY RESORTS IN NOVELS. By CLIVE HOLLAND

... interesting A Kent Squire, by F. W. Hayes, should find readers, and men and boys will turn with zest to Romance, by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Hueffer, dealing with the smuggling and piratical days of the early eighteenth century. Folkestone is the ...

Published: Tuesday 22 July 1924
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 506 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CARSTON MAN KILLED AT CREWE. ENGAGED ON TECHNICAL WORK

... adventure and the sal. and the excel. lance of this literary budget may be inferred from the fact that it is the work of Joseph Conrad, A:fred Noye. Flarti :Neu& Edmund Bluncien, David W. Hone 'ox Smith. Bennett Couple.4:.n.. E. Itchle Chattertoti. J. flaw ...

Published: Friday 25 July 1924
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 751 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LONDON CALLING ..

... book'-'• selling firm of Birrell and Garnett, was the purchaser yesterday of the first copy of the suppressed preface to Joseph Conrad's Nigger of the Narcissus ever to come into the auction room. The secret of the preface, said Mr. Wright. is that ...

Published: Friday 25 July 1924
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1709 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SUMMER FETES. BIBHOPSBOURNF

... Kennett were in charge of the entranetts and Major Tatter li - mall kindly acted a. treasurer. The well-known author. Mr. Joseph Conrad, very kindly gave autographed copies ef two of his books., The Seeret Agent, and A Set of Six, to he raffled for, and ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1924
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 517 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

FETE AT BISHOPSBOURNE

... There were several gifts sent in, including two volumes of “Secret Agent” and “Set of Six, autographed the author, Mr. Joseph Conrad, who resides at Bishopsbourne. The fete realised about £lOO. ...

from Town

... eontinua.lv growing, it may be necessary to alter the name of the club as new members come along. CONRAD COLLABORATES. When Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford collaborated in Romance. published in 1903. wa* interesting to trace the work tbe two authors in ...

Published: Tuesday 29 July 1924
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 826 | Page: 5 | Tags: none