... Genius Harold Bloom Fourth Estate, £25 Sophodes, Joseph Conrad, Angela Carter and lEzn Pound are all absent from this fat ‘compendium of literary ‘geniuses’. And as in his earlier book, The Westem Canon, Bloom dearly has no time for exploring non-Occidental ...

... 1820 Thomas Beecham, inventor of Beecham's pills; 1838 Octavia Hill, philanthropist; 1850 George Manson, painter; 1857 Joseph Conrad, writer; 1883 Anton von Webern, composer; 1908 Victor Pasmore, artist; 1914 Irving Fine, composer; 1923 Maria Callas, opera ...

... described it as the “long continued frost” as he tried to overcome bouts of writer's block by writing poems about it. Joseph Conrad was particularly tormented, with the novelist once writing: “I want to howl and foam at the mouth”. And E.M. Forster was ...

... apart. Slowly, he thought himself out of his class. Gradually, in novels in which he was helped by advice from his friends Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford, he fixed his target. The Forsyte Sagu, at least in its opening book, was always meant to be alot more ...

... finds himself, but also for making such disempowerment so sexually appealing. After all, she has plenty of fore-runners - Joseph Conrad succeeded in a wonderfully racist portrayal of Africa through the figure of the “savage” native woman in Heart of Darkness ...

... Justice. Pressures ~ start to mount for Shirl - ~ Hennessey. 8251918 - - 2:00 [EIXY Lord Jim (1964): ;- Adaptation of the Joseph © Conrad fiovel. 2749598 4:30 Russell Grant's Postcards. . (R)64990096° - 4:40 Prisoner: Cell Block H. - Merle finds afriend ...

... followed Jacki to Celtic from Legia Warsaw 6. Fryderyk Seoper: Frederic Chopin. Could carry a tune True national icon. 7. Joseph Conrad: Talented scribbler. Wrote ‘Heart of Darkness’, ‘Secret Agent’ and ‘Lord Jim’ Useless at spot-kicks 8. Krzysztof Keslowski: ...

... here, drawing in the influences of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror, Albert Camus's existentialism, Kafka, Dostoevsky and Joseph Conrad. Running through the ideas and stories of classic noir writers such as Raymond Chandler, Patricia Highsmith and James Ellroy ...

... fascinating nuggets of information - not least the fact that in 1914 Henry James identified Compton Mackenzie as an heir to Joseph Conrad. No, really. DAVID CUNNINGHAM ...

... never be without: Don Quixote, a biography of Mozart, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Balzac, Zola, Dostoevsky, Anna Karenina, Joseph Conrad, Proust, One | Hundred Years of Solitude, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, | Calvino's If On A Winter’s | Night A Traveller ...

... co-founder of the Wells- Fargo Express service; 1916 Sir Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (executed for treason); 1924 Joseph Conrad, novelist; 1529 Emile Berliner, inventor of the flat phonograph record; 1954 Colette, writer; 1966 Lenny Bruce, comedian; ...

... Glasgow — but now lives in north London. What's currently on your bookshelf? Disgrace by J M Coetzee, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and 7he Magician of Lublin by saac Bashevis Singer. ; What books are on your bedside table? The pile includes Aunt Julia ...