... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 1 Unlucky Jim Elspeth Grant According to Richard Brooks-- whose screen version of Joseph Conrad's early novel, Lord Jim, was chosen for this year's Royal Film Performance-- any body bent on making a success ful film of a Conrad work must be prepared to ...