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... 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 ...
... Bloch-Michel has done a bold thing in choosing a theme which has been used, once and for all one would have said, by Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim the effect on a sensitive young man of his one act of cowardice. Even the form this takes differs little in ...
... 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 ...
... The two first volumes of Men and Books, a series of Literary Biographies, published by Longmans Green at 10s. 6d., are JOSEPH CONRAD, by Oliver Warner, and BERNARD SHAW, by A. C. Ward. DOSTOIEVSKY (Arthur Barker. 8s. 6d.), by C. M. Woodhouse, is a further ...
... AT THE CINEMA with C. A. LEJEUNE I MAY as well admit straight away that I have never read Joseph Conrad's novel, An Outcast of the Islands, so I am not in a position to say exactly how much, and in what ways, Carol Reed's picture differs from the original ...
... only as a scholar, but as a sailor who knows its waters both under sail and in steam. He had his own full-rigged ship, Joseph Conrad, and sailed her among the islands of the East Indies, and he served, as squadron commander of landing craft, on the Arakan ...
... Laughing Anne (Leicester Square) HERBERT WILCOX'S Laughing Anne is a very free adaptation of a short story by Joseph Conrad called Because of the Dollars. It deals with a schooner captain who meets a derelict French singer in one of the less reputable ...
... 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 ...
... by Henry James (Oxford 5T'vty Press. 8s. 6d.), MODERN IRISH SHORT JURIES, selected bv Frank O'Connor (7s. netl. and Joseph Conrad's VICTORY (8s. 6d. net). R.C. E. ...
... admirable subject for Mr. de la Bedoyere's biography. Mr. Richard Curie has written an original kind of literary study in JOSEPH CONRAD and His Charac ters (Heinemann. 21s.). For one thing, Mr. Curie analyses not the writer so much as his stories, and the ...
... block. At one time it was claimed to be the oldest inn in England, and it was a favourite haunt of Charles Dickens and Joseph Conrad. The Committee for the Preservation of Rural Kent is trying hard to prevent its destruction, but their efforts may be in ...
... could be, in a country not his own, when he lived, wrote and flourished in Kent. Mr. Jocelyn Baines' critical biography, JOSEPH CONRAD (Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 42s.), is the best study, and certainly the most fully documented, that I have read on this author ...