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In cosy circles

... Lord Astor, newspaper proprietor; Jane Austen, writer; Freddie Bartholomew, child film star: Sir John Betjeman, poetr: Joseph [Conrad. writer; Lady Cunard, hostess: Marlene Dietrich, film star; Edward Garnett, man of letters; Sir Robert Helpmann, dancer: ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1980
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 361 | Page: 78 | Tags: none

THE BOOKSELLER. JUNE 14, 1980

... wrong tack’ as a writer almost all his life, though had he only pulled himself together he might have become ‘akin to Joseph Conrad’. That seems a rum do—for who wants two Conrads? Imagine Conrad trying to write Treasure Island! Still for lovers of Stevenson ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1980
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 272 | Page: 81 | Tags: none

Critics Crowner

... played full back for Nottingham Forest. i Quentin Oates Traven lacks the psychological complexity of another emigré writer, Joseph Conrad. with whom he has much in common. his disinterested rage against injustice. inequality and exploitation from time to time ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1980
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 581 | Page: 77 | Tags: none

BORN OF AUFIRIC/A PHILIP CAPUTO

... Publishers Weekly “quite simply a devastating book, reminiscent in its passionate style and moral intensity of the best of Joseph Conrad.” Newsday - e > R ah -~ egWY T I K. B ' = g 8 ; . -.» g P . - 3 Y - L ¢ e 5 “i 3 e C A-t vy o o ) y oy “ ‘ - .g : ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1981
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 267 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BOOKS AND MARKETING

... Forrest Wilson. BOOKSHELF on 22nd March, repeated 26th March, has Peter the Great (Gollancz, £9-95) by Robert Massie and Joseph Conrad: Times Re- Membered (CUP, £lO-50) by John Conrad. THE Woman’s Hour serial from 30th March to Bth April is an eight-episode ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1981
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 707 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

MOBKS AND MARKETING J

... £5-95, paper £4-95). RADIO ULSTER’s Book Ends on 26th April will feature South from Granada (CUP, £3-95) by Gerald Brenan, Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered (CUP, £lO-50) by John Conrad and Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (OUP, £B-95) by ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1981
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 605 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

A month of

... warfare. Both are violent books with good characterisation and African colour, and the publishers each draw a similarity to Joseph Conrad for their authors. For a yet more violent read Corgi has André Lacaze’s The Tunnel (£l-95, 22nd January). Translated from ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1981
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 361 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

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... mm Victor Hugo o T i@ Sister Carmie - Theodore Dreiser @' Silas Mamer - George Eliof o e ' -~ i and The Secre! Sharer Joseph Conrad 1 ot e SR oy oo e ©.@ Emma-Jane Austen ©'® David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Y e g T R : D L L O e O e nror © @ The Prince ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1981
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 223 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

14 022161 1

... 14 022161 1 Tender Years (Fitzgerald Maire) D 8.322 €595 New Horizon (182) Bio . 86116 589 6 Tennant, Roger. Joseph Conrad: Biography. 1M8286. Il £12.50 Sheldon P. (182) Bio! 4 85969 358 9 Teresa of AvilaSt (Gallagher) 5C8.16. Il pbk £0.35 Catholic Truth ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1982
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 372 | Page: 98 | Tags: none

| ON THE AIR

... Unsuitable Attachment, Barbara Pym (Macmillan, £6-95); 1 May: Michael Barber interviews Robert McCrum about Nostromo, Joseph Conrad (Pan, 60p). Critics Forum, Radio 3, 24 April: Before She Met Me; Julian Barnes ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1982
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

Fiction

... decaying characters flung into a spiral of violence. A very powerful novel that has been compared to both Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad. o Faber and Faber Ltd are proud to announce a sensational new lurch down the slippery incline towards popularity ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1982
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 593 | Page: 57 | Tags: none