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A LITERARY LETTER: Shakspere's Portrait

... sold for £9. All the Masefield books sell better here than in America. As a rule there is an astonishing solidarity. The Joseph Conrad books sell for about the same in both countries. Typhoon sold for £5, Youth for £6 10s., Tales of Unrest for £6 10s. But ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2792 | Page: 12 | Tags: Review 

THE BELLS IN THE STADIUM

... twenty-five years, and had been Chairman of the Southern Railway since the new grouping of lines. Mr. Joseph Conrad was a Pole, and his real name was Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski. He was for many years in the British Merchant Service, and his experiences provided ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1924
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 745 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

THE NEWSLETTER WEEK BY WEEK

... One of the Most Distinguished of English Writers The late Ml. Joseph Conrad, who has just died at Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury, at the age of sixty-seven. His proper name was Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski, and he was by birth a Pole A note on Conrad will ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3173 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

JOSEPH CONRAD. Death of a Great Novelist

... JOSEPH CONRAD. Death of a Great Novelist England loses another great novelist in the death, which occurred at his residence, near Canterbury, at the age of V, of Mr. Joseph Conrad. Ile was of Polish parentage. He wen; to sea as a youth, and eventually ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1924
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 122 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CRICH

... known author, died Sunday. came aristocratic Polish family, and his grandfather fought in Napoleon’s Graiid Armee. Mr. Joseph Conrad did not to England, nor could speak word of English, till he was grown up. But. whilst •it the I'niver-ity, was irresistibly ...

NEWS IN BRIEF AT THE WEEK-END. “By QUILL.”

... been transferred the Central British Cemetery at Ohlsdorr which, when completed, will have graves.—Exchange. passing of Joseph Conrad recoils his remarkable addevemcnt a writer a language had to acquire. Of Polish nationality, adopted the sea o, sailing ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1924
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1267 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE MAGISTRATES OuMMENDA

... tides are calculated on Greenwich Time earlier than at Whitstah It is hich tide at Herne Bay ten minutes DEATH OF MR. JOSEPH CONRAD, THE NOVELIST. ““ A great master of English,’’ as he is called and truly was, passed away on Sun- oO day morning in Mr ...

COUNTY INTELLIGENCE

... tor Neweastle Chancellor of the under. Lyme, and Duchy of Lancasier, is one © f the exeeu- tors of the will the late Mr, Joseph Conrad, the { ous novelist, whose took place at Canterbury on Thureaday Mr. William Patrick Cowie, C.1-B., an Indian Civil Servant ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1924
Newspaper: Staffordshire Advertiser
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1582 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EDITORIAL VIIW

... on thee° huge bonfires on the effete] farnis with dismay. Thousands of tons of meat are thus destroyed. By the death of Joseph Conrad the world loses a wonderful novelist and several of no a genial t onipenton. He was enamoured of Kent, having lived in ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1924
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 1666 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

OUR LONDON LETTER

... OUR LONDON LETTER. FRIDAY MORNING. The Irish Question-—Goodwood— Queen Exile—ln the Heart Of Africa—Joseph Conrad—Lord Allenby on Leave—Rosewater in Coffee —Pioneer Sheep Farming—Flag Promotions in the Navy—Royalty and the Stage—Cross-Channel Air Services ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1924
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1619 | Page: 13 | Tags: none