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NEWS OF BOOKS. THE QUEEN OF ROUMANIA'S FAIRY STORY

... Robinson, and has even • touch of the colour which one will find in Prescott's Conquest of Peru. Writers and Readers. Mr. Joseph Conrad now nearly finished his novel on the Napoleonic period. A posthumous volume of stories by Miss Katherine Mansfield is appearing ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1924
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1193 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

JOSEPH CONRAD

... JOSEPH CONRAD. It was not until the boy Conrad was 19 that he went to the sea. In 1877 he reached England, and for many months he served on a collier on the East Coast. Here he began to learn English. Until 18E44 he lived as a deep-water seaman, becoming ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1924
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

S2/.000 ter MSS

... ter MSS. -- - These are bald facts of the history of the Pole, Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski, whc.f-e fame in a short 30 years has grown so that the manuscripts of his nover,, carefully preserved by his wife from desttuctlon, sold recently in Amenco for ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1924
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SERVICE-MEN WHOI JOSEPH CONRAD. START AFRESH. A PICTURE OF THE MAN. FROM ADMIRAL TO SOCIAL By R. J. CRUIKSHANK. ..

... SERVICE-MEN WHOI JOSEPH CONRAD. START AFRESH. A PICTURE OF THE MAN. FROM ADMIRAL TO SOCIAL By R. J. CRUIKSHANK. WORKER By Major-Gen. NIGEL WOODYATT. General Woodyalt, under the cloak of anonymity, tells the stories of officers retired from the Army or ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1924
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2275 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DEATH OF MR. JOSEPH CONRAD. SAILOR WHO BECAME FAMOUS WRITER. HIS ROMANTIC CAREER. Mr. Joseph Conrad, the author ..

... DEATH OF MR. JOSEPH CONRAD. SAILOR WHO BECAME FAMOUS WRITER. HIS ROMANTIC CAREER. Mr. Joseph Conrad, the author, died yesterday at his residence, Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury. Ile was 66. The son of Polish parents. Theodor Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1924
Newspaper: Westminster Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 80 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CONRAD DEAD. , PAGEANT OF ROBUST YOUTH SEAMAN WHO WON LITERARY FAME. LEARNING ENGLISH ON BOARD A COLLIER. ..

... CONRAD DEAD. , PAGEANT OF ROBUST YOUTH SEAMAN WHO WON LITERARY FAME. LEARNING ENGLISH ON BOARD A COLLIER. JOSEPH CONRAD, the nos-eh:A, died yesterday morning at his residence at Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury, at the age of 67. He went out for a motor-car ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1924
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 118 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A MAN APART. CONRAD'S SURE PLACE IN LITERATURE. Sy A. G. GARDINER

... A MAN APART. CONRAD'S SURE PLACE IN LITERATURE. Sy A. G. GARDINER. The passing of Joseph Conrad is the passing of a great solitary. He came into English literature with an alien tongue and an alien tradition, but with the authority and assurance of genius ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1924
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 463 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LIGHT AT LAST

... complete her own ruin. A MASTER OF THE NOVEL. There is probably no parallel in our literature for the achievements of Joseph Conrad. He came to our language as a stranger and became a master in its use. Not born to any English literary tradition, be was ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1924
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1015 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Great Writer Who Learnt English in Fo'cs’le. SAGA OF THE SEA

... near Canterbury, yesterday. Bern ““ somewhere in Poland ” in 1857, Joseph Conrad will always be regarded s the most amazing personality in English literature. His full name was Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski, and he did not begin to speak the language of which ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1924
Newspaper: London Daily Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 589 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Franco-British Accord

... had the effect of resurrecting Mr. Hughes’ American offer, and thus made the Dawes Commission possible. Joseph Conrad. The death of Mr. Joseph Conrad at an age when much good writing was still to be expected from him, is a severe loss to English letters ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1924
Newspaper: London Daily Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 416 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The big yachts which will take part to-day in the splendid Cowes Regatta were rai Southampton Water on Saturday ..

... Saturday.—(Dailyt Mirror photo ;hampton Club on Saturday. 'ing by way of a -trial spin in yaphs.) NOVELIST DEAD.--Mr. Joseph Conrad, the celebrated novelist. who died yesterday at his house at Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury. Of Polish parentage, ha was ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1924
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 72 | Page: 20 | Tags: none