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JOSEPH CONRAD AT HOME

... JOSEPH CONRAD AT HOME I N September 1896 an unusual couple arrived at the south Essex village of Stanford-le- Hope, beside the Thames near Tilbury. The wife, Jessie, was the daughter of a London bookseller; the husband, Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski ...

Published: Thursday 21 October 1982
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3624 | Page: 161 | Tags: none

WHERE IS WILLIAM

... by Christie's on July 28, 1922. JOSEPH CONRAD AT HOME SIR-Readers of Amanda Bingley's article (October 21) under the above title may be interested to see the photograph of a deckchair which once belonged to Joseph Conrad. It was constructed by the ship's ...

Published: Thursday 23 December 1982
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 382 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

FILM

... scale-and no doubt also the box office-of Alny Foster are not quite of Titanic proportions. Based on a short story by Joseph Conrad, it unfolds in a tight-knit farming village on the stormtossed s hores of Cornwall in the late-19th century (sharp-eyed ...

Published: Thursday 07 May 1998
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 109 | Tags: none

~:--••AGENCIES

... grounds extending to 14 ACRES An individual country home designed ari.d built by John Conrad, son of the renowned author Joseph Conrad. 3 reception rooms, 3 bedrooms, adjoining staff flat. Swimming pool. Gardens and grounds of 14 ACRES. REGION OF £500,000 ...

Published: Thursday 18 May 1989
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 358 | Page: 106 | Tags: none

Hampton& Sons NEAR ASHFORD, KENT A handsome period country house with later extension, the whole requiring ..

... handsome period country house with later extension, the whole requiring renovation. Once the home of the famous author Joseph Conrad Reception hall, sitting room, dining room, panelled drawing room, kitchen, domestic offices, 7 bedrooms, dressing room ...

Published: Thursday 12 March 1987
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 385 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

Local Clique

... Seymour's book is less about conspiracy than about adjacent literary life-styles. Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells all happened to reside in East Sussex at about the turn of the century, and as the only full-blooded Englishman ...

Published: Thursday 27 October 1988
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 248 | Page: 171 | Tags: none

Sense of Belonging

... this vicious circle and the work itself becomes like the work in a treadmill-a thing without joy-a punishing task, wrote Joseph Conrad to his friend Ted Sanderson on October 12, 1899. You can see now why I am often so remiss in my correspondence. There ...

Published: Thursday 09 October 1986
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2191 | Page: 184 | Tags: none

THE PROBLEMS OF GOODNESS S 0

... THE PROBLEMS OF GOODNESS S 0 PAUL BAILEY THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF JOSEPH CONRAD Volume 2: 1898-1902. Edited by Frederick R. Karl & Laurence Davies (Cambridge, [27.50) the wicked, or even the moderately flawedthey make diverting company in the long hours ...

Published: Thursday 09 October 1986
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 327 | Page: 184 | Tags: none

4-A SCHOOL CLASS AT WORK I THE MUSEUM'S EDUCATIO AL CE TRE

... the on the Thames, Britain's worldwide trade with coal, indu trial condition at sea and the handling of sailing ships. Joseph Conrad' ea career, the training and recreation of seamen, the development of the great chooner in North America and the growth ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1974
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1365 | Page: 188 | Tags: none

BADAJOS OF LONDON, c 1800. A cutaway diagram shows the double hull construction, with space in between for ..

... roaring out to sea in a cloud of spray, are no longer quite the birds of the sea, whose swimming is like flying, as Joseph Conrad described their graceful sailing Nor do today's Customs officers ancestors. Nor do today's Customs officers pursue ·their ...

Published: Thursday 19 February 1987
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1274 | Page: 101 | Tags: none

TELEVISION

... and diminishing 12th-(or 18th-) century anti-Semitism. But this is marginal. John Hale's four-part dramatisation from Joseph Conrad suffers from its proximity to the recent Rhodes (BBC 1). It is another story of greedy TELEVISION The first casualty of ...

Published: Thursday 13 February 1997
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1439 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

PRELIMI ARY TO

... among the balmiest heresie of all cultural time is de rigu.eur-that everything from the poems of Tu Fu to the novels of Joseph Conrad, must be read, not in A Sense of Place As I read of each myth, each hero, and these mythological features of Ayers Rock ...

Published: Thursday 23 December 1965
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 671 | Page: 56 | Tags: none