... cal woman shopper. 9.59 Weather. 10.00 The World Tonight. News round-up. 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Heart of Darkness. By Joseph Conrad. 11.00 Home Truths. 12.00 News. 12.30 Book of the Week: In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz. 12.48 Shipping Forecast. 1.00 As ...

... them anglicised their names so you may not have realised it. There's Nobel Prize Winner Marie Curie, Frederic Chopin, Joseph Conrad, film-maker Roman Polanski and, more recently, Liverpool goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek. Some of those with Polish roots who changed ...

... he waved to Casement in the dock the prisoner simply smiled back at him as if to say What's all this nonsense about? Joseph Conrad, the famous novelist, thought there was a touch of the conquistador in Casement. I have seen him often walk into the ...

... that sends certain unfortunate people into a state of apoplexy. Foe me, the literary torture came courtesy of Thphoon by Joseph Conrad. This was an excruciating experience and one that turned me off Conrad and related works forever. This makes me seem c ...

... book ever convinced me that the Apocalypse was so close. Favourite book? Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. Favourite film? In the week of his death, Ingmar Bergman's Persona, The Seventh Ceal and the extraordinary Scenes From ...

... politics of a country can only be an extension of its idea of human relationships. Naipaul has a strong affinity with Joseph Conrad, whom he quotes more than once, sharing his belief in the moral imperative of the 'empire builder.' to bring with him high ...

... Irish PEN dinner was held at the prestigious Cafe Royal in London in October 1921 with 41 writers in attendance, induding Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy and DH Lawrence. Lady Augusta Gregory set up the first branch of Irish PEN and the annual dinner has become ...

... colonel called Kurtz and terminate his command in this magnifi cent, sprawling epic war film based on a novella by Joseph Conrad and set against the backdrop of the Vietnam war. With Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Laurence Fishburne. IL • See Pages ...

... Quo Vadis, which concerns Christian persecutions under). sics currently in the curriculum - including works by Goethe, Joseph Conrad, himself a Pole, Dostoevsky or Kafka - would be removed. Culture Minister Kazimierz Michal Ujazdowski said it was completely ...

... development company, Nud, has added a comprehensive travel and tourism service to its prised guests with its luxuries, that Joseph Conrad was concerned he would be unable to pay the bill for his stay in room No 1. In brash, frenetic and farfrom•pretty modern ...

... became clear that he had lost his head in the jungle of savagery and despair which in many ways has not changed since Joseph Conrad wrote Heart Of Darkness. Backed in his ascent to power by Rwandan military forces, Kabila was compromised from the start ...

... great laureates of the ocean, during the brief reign of the clippers: the Pole, Joseph Conrad; the Englishman, John Masefield, and the Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson. Joseph Conrad's novels, beginning with Nigger of the Narcissus of 1897 and Lord Jim a couple ...