AUGUST 3
... the Santa Maria (1492) First: First traffic lights in Britain were installed at Piccadilly Circus, London (1926) Died: Joseph Conrad, Polishborn author (1924) Born: Terry Wogan, Irish-born TV personality (1938) ...
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JOYCE SOLD FOR
... long-time friends of the Conrads. `Victory' came out in England on 24 September 1915 and was a great popular success. Also by Joseph Conrad was a typescript of the short story Falk with very extensive revisions by Conrad. The tale first appeared in 'Typhoon ...
A Good Read Radio 4,4.30 pm Sue MacGregor returns with a new run of the review series. In the first
... review series. In the first episode, she is joined by Jeremy Paxman and historian Bettany Hughes, who choose books by Joseph Conrad and Jane Gardam night Waves Radio 3,9.45 pm Douglas Coupland speaks about his new novel The Gum Thief (Bloomsbury) Wednesday ...
QUESTION TIME
... QUESTION TIME 1. Which Premier League soccer team plays at Turf Moor? 2. Which Joseph Conrad novel is the film 'Apocalypse Now' based on? 3. Podgorica is the capital city of which European country? 4. Complete the U 2 song title: Gonna Pay For Youi Crashed ...
LU DLS
... spinr;gg-mule. Sir Rowland Hill, 1795, English educator and pioneer in postal services, born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Joseph Conrad, 1857, Polish-born English author whose books include Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness. Anton von Sebern, 1883, Austrian ...
It’s a Long story
... titles making it onto the “most reviewed” list. John Stape’s The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad (Heinemann) was reviewed alongside the re-issue of Zdzislaw Najder’s Joseph Conrad: A Life (Camden House) in the Independent—with praise for the “succinct way of ...
NON-FICTION A A nJsiapmires Circle 1595 -1915 By Palranda Seymour Scribner £8.99 33Spp HENRY James spent the ..
... proud owner of Lamb House in Rye, East Sussex. The area was densely populated with literary figures, among them HG Wells, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford and Stephen Crane. First published in 1988, this book explores the mass of evasions and misrepresentations ...
SALLY BEAUMANN
... Dublin 13; Con Burns, Union Hall, Cork. ANSWERS Section 1, Cinema: 1 Gore Vidal; 2 Atom Egoyan; 3 Frederic Raphael; 4 Joseph Conrad; 5 Jacques ...
and featuring Yashmin, a detective in the sultan’s palace. The reader is Andrew Sachs. Classics Virginia Woolf ..
... Stevenson. It is unabridged—the abridged version, by the same reader, has long been a deserved Naxos backlist success. Joseph Conrad Nostromo Naxos, June, £19.99, 9789626348710, 6 CDs PR vircinia Woolr m S To the Lighthouse SSESE PO s sevemon O L % ...
THE CONDENSED CLASSIC
... lapidary and elegiac but never sentimental: staccato followed by those so-called 'dying fall' sentences he lifted from Joseph Conrad. The language is skilfully chosen. There are, for example, 35 drafts to the ending. Hemingway was a slow writer, at best ...
Many happy returns
... March. Some noted writers are sure to be remembered in 2007, including Joseph Conrad, author of Heart of Darkness, who was born in December 1857. The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad by John Stape (Heinemann) is published in August. Henry Fielding, writer ...
Clanger of the Week
... the, mostly vain, hope of tripping me up. Ah well, I comfort myself with a quotation from one of my favourite authors, Joseph Conrad who said: “It is only those who do nothing that make no mistakes.” There is, however, a difference between one or two ...