... in the series are Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Mar cel Proust, Luigi Pirandello, Virginia Woolf, Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Henrik Ibsen and T. S. Eliot. The series, which will open with an introductory programme outlining its purpose and range ...

... abstract, and recog nised as one of the greatest portrait sculptors of all time. His busts of Bernard Shaw and, especially, Joseph Conrad, were what are called perfect likenesses in traditional terms, and he was without equal in sculpting chil dren's faces ...