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KNOW! COUNTRY – DIARY

... writers ~whose work formed the emrfiising myth of British imperialism: _ Daniel ‘Defoe, Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad. To their study he has added examinations of Fennimore Cooper, Mark Twain and Tolstoy, both in a spirit of comparison and ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1980
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1135 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Retreat from fiction

... trong. impulse to sample the rich diet provided by novelists of whose work I am shamefully ignorant, like Henry James and Joseph Conrad, but I actually bring into my house, and place on my shelves, books by those writers, books which I have every intention ...

Published: Monday 16 June 1980
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 638 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

— one war correspondent’s protection

... took him on.a trip through South-East Asia that lasted six months. 1 ‘wanted to find thé Settings and characters for Joseph Conrad's novels so that I could write a book about it. 1 was perfectly happy chuntering upriver with Lord ]irri and Almayer’'s ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1980
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 848 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

RADIO SCOTLAND

... Hour. 3 News. 3.2 Tom Jones. 4 Places of Piigrimage: Canterbury. 4.15 The Bogart Flle. 4.45 Story Time: ‘The Rover,’ by Joseph Conrad. 5 PM. 5.50 Shipping Forecast. 5.55 Weather. 6 News. 6.30 Never Too Late. 7 News. 7.5 The Archers. 7.20 Medicine Now. 7 ...

Published: Tuesday 12 January 1982
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 455 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

By JAMES CAMPBELL

... y helpfully provided by the author, no fewer than 24 biographies of Conrad are listed, two of them — Frederick Karl's Joseph Conrad, The Three Lives and the first volume of Jan Watt's mammoth study in the making — published very recently. The impertinent ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1982
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Conrad in close-up

... Conrad in close-up ROGER TENNANT: Joseph Conrad — A Bifinphy. (276 pp. £12,50. Sheldon Press.) ROGER -Tennant possesses the most important qualification for writing ahjographg of Conrad: he loves ‘the subject. In a modest foreword, he mentions his “obsessive ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1982
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Seeing the woods through fictive trees

... Sea reamer. Details of ships and their movements throughout the book “are taken from the appendix of The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad by Jerry Allen.” On a matter of the young Conrad winkling money from his uncle, Mr Tennant sums up: “The suggestion by ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1982
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1135 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

R. D. S. Jack

... R. D. S. Jack THE SECRET AGENT YWCA, Randolph Place IT'S BEEN justly said'that Joseph. Conrad’s novel is marred by a lack of development of the character and motivations of the secret agent himself, Verloc. Cambridge Mummers' playwright Mark Brickman's ...

Published: Tuesday 24 August 1982
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

HARLEQUINADE Christ Church Hall, Morningside

... macabre effects, and impeccable performances. Mario Relich THE SECRET AGENT YWCA, Randolph Place IT'S BEEN justly said. that Joseph Conrad’'s novel -is marred by a lack of development of the character and motivations of the secret agent himself, Verloc. Cambridge ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1982
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Magic Cinders

... September 4. M. M, Half-Hour Call: Borderline Theatre Roxburgh Place exchange of lunch-time banter on Scots-English rivalry. Joseph Conrad's novel “The Secret Agent,” which examines the shabby lives of anarchists in Victorian England, has a certain relevance ...

Published: Tuesday 31 August 1982
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 510 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Owen Dudley Edwards. CHARLIE MARLOW'S FINAL YARN Masonic Lodge, Hill Street

... FINAL YARN Masonic Lodge, Hill Street MICHAEL FORD’S %lay. ?re- E::;ed by Dublin Break asg pany, a reunion o those cmmn:? Joseph Conrad's who heard Marlow tell the story of Heart of Darkness. It becomes clear after dinner that Marlow is no longer in the mood ...

Published: Friday 03 September 1982
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BEIRUT: A refnTee holds out supplicating hands to a gnnman from “Eyewitness,” Harold Evans’s book of Press ..

... possessed”, by John Galsworthy, or “this composed giant was the Featest llvini‘ writer of English,” by ord Madox Ford. Even Joseph Conrad said of him: “He writes as the grass grows.” FAndsoitis:fleasuergtop(igauf “Far Away an ng Ago”, nd, £3.95), to {ecome aware ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1982
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 8 | Tags: none