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OUR BOOKSHELF: Half a Century of English Fiction

... 1906, at the age of sixty-seven, there seemed no reason to think that good things might not come from the older writers. Joseph Conrad was at the height of his powers from Lord Jim in 1900 his magnificent stories appeared at intervals of a year or two until ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1463 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

George Orwell By F. J. WARBURG

... he rejoiced. He died with his work unfinished. Two new novels were already simmering in his mind, and a long essay on Joseph Conrad, whom he greatly admired. With his passing English literature is immeasurably the poorer, and one of the greatest, lovable ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1950
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 950 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

THE STAR HER

... continue to cost too much and take too long. Now, you can't cure an by walking away from it. If you wish to float, said Joseph Conrad. it is necessary to immerse yourself in the element of your own destruction. And it suddenly occurred to me to go in search ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1950
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Mantle of Elijah

... and Arthur Balfour, F. E. Smith in his cups and F. E. Smith not in his cups, Paderewski, who spoke English as well as Joseph Conrad, that other Pole, wrote it. But never have I enjoyed a speech more than that one by the old Devon wonder. (To content the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1225 | Page: 18 | Tags: Illustrations 

FOUR TALES

... FOUR TALES by Joseph Conrad with an Introduction by SIR DAviD BONE WORLD'S CLASSICS ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1950
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 14 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

6 #intbag Bispattli, MAY 28, 1950

... Sumatra , My Darling? was written and composed by Bill Johnson. seeking location sites for the Alm he intends to make of + Joseph Conrad's tale. An Outcast of the Islands. ebony-hued American . ORTY-FrVE stone of He also hopes to find some manhood shouldered ...

Published: Sunday 28 May 1950
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1811 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Panee Documentary .

... scenario writer with Biograph in 1910 and has been in films ever since. CAROL REED FLIES EAST FOR CONRAD STORY ONE of Joseph Conrad's stories, An Outcast of the Island, is to be director Carol Reed's next subject for Sir Alexander Korda's London Films ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1950
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 990 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

LONGMANS BOOK NEWS FOR JUNE

... Paper, Supplements to British Book News CurisTtorpHEß HOLLIS G. K. Chesterton A. C. WaARrD OLIVER WARNER Bernard Shaw Joseph Conrad Paper, Paper, Paper, Please note that these dates are liable to alteration. LONGMANS, GREEN & CO., LTD., 6-7 CLIFFORD Europe ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1950
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NEWS

... NEWS WITHOUT VIEWS REED'S rext film will be an of Joseph's Conrad’s “An Out- cast of the Islands.” Reed, with bis associates, left London last week, on an exploratory trip by air to Malaya, Java and Scmatra, to assess the practicability of filming in ...

Published: Friday 09 June 1950
Newspaper: West London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

VIPONT E. A Lily Among Thorns. C 8.12

... and Winter Air Conditioning. (J. W. Norris SPD.IEN. PR T, sasvsanvtninsahsonstssasssds WIS MOURW Rag * WARNER, OLIVER. Joseph Conrad. D 58.39. Fr. sd.l/ Brit. Council : Longmans (6) Bio *WARNER, Sir PELHAM. Gentlemen v. Players, 1806-1949. D 8.500 R it ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1950
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 766 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

Reed’s Next

... different. He’s chosen ‘‘An Outcast of the Islands,”” one of the best stories by that fine, but now unfashionable, writer, Joseph Conrad. The story is set in the East Indies, and Reed has departed for those parts to investigate the possibilities of a major ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1950
Newspaper: Picturegoer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Some Portraits in Print: Beinǵ the lucubrations of your moft obedient fcribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1833 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs