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... KERIMA AS AISSA She knows no fear and no shame, wrote Joseph Conrad of his heroine in Outcast of the Islands. Carol Reed, an admirer of the book since his boyhood, produced and directed the film. He found Kerima in Algiers after a long hunt for a worthy ...
... rough, he was nearly always in play. His opponent in the final and the new Amateur champion, twenty-five-year-old Lieut. Joseph Conrad, deserved to win because he outplayed his dour, thirty-six- year-old opponent in the difficult morning conditions, and ...
... excesses and determined ugliness, does not lose hold of the heart. The foreword to Laughing Anne reminds everybody that Joseph Conrad, who appears in the person of Robert Harris, was one of the great story-tellers of his time. Somebody should have reminded ...
... lapsed. All through Outcast of the Islands I kept wondering why Mr. Reed had turned back to this cruel, dismal story by Joseph Conrad: he said because he had always wanted to do a Conrad story for the spirit of adventure in them. Whenever a whiff of adventure ...
... how's and wherefore's of the novelist's art, as manifest both in the classic and the modern. The perceptive study of Joseph Conrad brings into focus that noble, exciting non-English writer in English often poet in prose. Conrad forms an interesting contrast ...
... Modigliani and Picasso. The Modigliani appears at first sight to be a portrait notably unstylised, for the artist of Joseph Conrad, but is actually of his doctor painted to repay a debt. Artists, if their lives are apt to At the City of London Art Exhibition ...
... new ones and those who had already reached their creative zenith. H. G. Wells and Galsworthy were still writing, so were Joseph Conrad and Arnold Bennett, the latter, alas, in his pot-boiler stage. Sinclair Lewis had burst upon the scene with Babbit at the ...
... Kna s HERMAN MELVILLE'S life is very curiously divided. His time of seafaring was not long, and he had no desire, as Joseph Conrad had, to become proficient as a mariner. He sailed before the mast to Liverpool in 1837, but returned to America and was ...
... Holiday Away from it All By GORDON COOPER MY taste in literature finds most satisfaction in re-reading time and again Joseph Conrad's Youth, that superb story of the lure of the sea. When I reach its final sentences, beginning By all that's wonderful ...