Life, People—and Books I A CHRISTMAS GARLAND,by Max Beerbohm. SEVEN MEN AND TWO OTHERS, by Max Beerbohm ..

... right. While you read them you can—almostthink you are reading a story by James or Wells or Hardy. Almost, but not quite. Joseph Conrad, for example, never wrote a story about a white man in the jungle who discovered with horror that Christmas Day is a feast ...

Published: Thursday 09 March 1950
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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FORTHCOMING BOOKS

... Francis Steegmuller. Collins; 12r. 6d. PIIIIMMILIIII. Gollancs; ins. 6d. Fortot of Feathers. by Dorothy Four Tales. by Joseph Conrad. Money and Organisation, by D. Ilackinder. Maodonald; Si. ild. Un- World's Ciampics•Ozford University Reid. Macdonald ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1950
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
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We Did Not See That Wild Man of Borneo but-

... islanders now have their independence and think adopting the English language, or its American variety! It is certain that Joseph Conrad knew towns like Jolo. Its sordid sea front and shoddy, unpaved streets are constantly met with in the pages of his books ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1950
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 927 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IN TOWN TO-NIGHT

... the BISHOP ODO, of Bayeux, owned most of Stanford at the time of Domesday, 'says MR. SAUNDERS. Then it was worth £10. Joseph Conrad, the novelist, lived in Ivy Walls in Stanford and a picture of the qnji be seen in his Letters,to JOHN GALSWORTHY. ...

Published: Friday 24 March 1950
Newspaper: Essex Newsman
County: Essex, England
Type: Article | Words: 817 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Old And New

... Four Tales. published in the World's Classics series by Geoffrey Cumberledge. Oxford University Press. 4s. These are Joseph Conrad's famous stories. The Nig er of the Narcissus. Youth. The Secret Sharer. and Freya of the Seven Seas. Fine value ...

Published: Monday 27 March 1950
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1145 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BOOKS

... (Cresset Press, 1.55). BRIGHT addition to the Classic series of the Oxford University Press t4s) as FOUR TALES, em- bodying Joseph Conrad's The Nagger of the Narcissus, Youth, The Secret Sharer, and Freya of the Seven Seas novels and tales which helped to establish ...

Published: Friday 31 March 1950
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 626 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FOUR TALES

... FOUR TALES by Joseph Conrad The Nigger of the Narcissus Youth: The Secret Sharer: Freya of the Seven Isles 4s. net OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1950
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 24 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EXPERIENCES OF A COOK

... , (Museum Press. 165.) Ti - 2e s« . Four Tales— The „ N, .?xiJ* Narcissus, Youth. efl Sharer. Freya of the ' -by Joseph Conrad with (0S duction by Sir David Bo University Press Dancing for the 2* > Silveater. (Odhams Pre» ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 1950
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE WARM-HEARTED MARIA

... L. A. Knight. Sampson Low ; Ss. 6d. Rough Passage, by Eliot Crawshay-Williams. John Long ; 10s. 6d. Four Tales,' by Joseph Conrad. Oxford Un*vers.ty Press; 41. MARIA EDGEWORTH is one they are staying. Though moral of those writers whose work in int ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1950
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
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South Wales Evening Post AND CAMBRIA DAILY LEADER Offices: Castle Bailey Street Swansea Telephone 3951 London ..

... literature loses pleasing and industrious figure He belonged to the of romantic writers which followed in the tradition of Joseph Conrad author of classics of romantic fiction like Romance and Typhoon” This school now somewhat out-of-date” believed weaving ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1950
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 4229 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RETROSPECT OF AN UNIMPORTANT LIFE by the late HERBERT HENSLEY HENSON VOLUME 111 The Years of Retirement, ..

... by the late HERBERT HENSLEY HENSON VOLUME 111 The Years of Retirement, 1939—1946. Illustrated. 255. net. FOUR TALES by JOSEPH CONRAD (The Nigger of the Narcissus: Youth: The Secret Sharer: Freya of the Seven Isles). WORLD’S CLASSICS 4s. net. THACKERAY: ...

Grants to university students Minister’s assurances to Leeds M.P. From Our Parliamentary Correspondent St, ..

... this exhibition alone have a national portrait gallery ranging from the young George Moore and George Bernard Shaw to Joseph Conrad. Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells. Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Max Beerbohm and T. E. Lawrence. Work as teacher But owe ...