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led her to anorexia and suicide attempts. She found salvation in the hundreds of children she rescued and ..

... of inner-city chaos, crime and poverty and celebrates many of its unconventional residents, past and present, including Joseph Conrad, Orson Welles, and a Baader-Meinhof terrorist on the run. And he tells his own Hackney story: 40 years in one house, marriage ...

Published: Friday 07 November 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 317 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

Collection speaks volumes

... the library offered for sale at quite modest prices , ranging £ 75 for a Bernhardt to £ 2 , 750 for a set of works by Joseph Conrad . They arc all first editions printed in London , the bulk in good condition and many with accompanying best wishes from ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 2002
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 558 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

TREAT

... have a memorable evening there. Whitbysteads is a glorious, unfussy, family home with a library of books from Balzac to Joseph Conrad, collected by Thomas's legendary late mother, the Hon Lavinia Lowther. She would sit at the dining table with drink and ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 565 | Page: 131 | Tags: none

RADIO REVIEW: Trap of deadly dignity

... run in an ending which had the feel of a Victorian ghost tale. Falk (R4, Saturday, Septem ber 16), the short story by Joseph Conrad, was dramatised by Robert Forrest to good effect. The seemingly odious Falk (Allan Sharpe), a tugboat captain whom an English ...

Published: Thursday 28 September 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 715 | Page: 24 | Tags: radio review 

Viewing the book

... The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Heart of Darkness (as “Apocalypse Now”) Joseph Conrad Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy The Jungle Book Rudyard ...

Published: Friday 07 April 2006
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1142 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Companion of Literature, companion of mine

... in English-her third language after German and French -gave her words the rich unexpectedness found in Isek Dinesen and Joseph Conrad. She conquered her adopted language, becoming a Fellow of the R oyal Society ofLiterature, receiving an OBE. In 1992, she ...

Published: Thursday 02 March 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 803 | Page: 112 | Tags: none

' &;y%* ; a second home in Morocco, which Mcßey 14?, : st had first visited in 1912. Apart from

... Twain, Ezra Pound, Gilbert Murray ing old paper, in ever increasing quantities, there are only two principal reception and Joseph Conrad were entertained by until his collection became the best and rooms besides the great studio: the drawing his parents in ...

Published: Thursday 07 March 2002
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 980 | Page: 108 | Tags: none

The last Englishman

... Market Harborough. “I can still remember his speech. ‘Quinn’s Bookshop has brought to Market Harborough Jane Austen and Joseph Conrad. And that is no mean achievement.’” “He was a man who created a whole business to provide himself with a subsistence living ...

Published: Friday 16 May 2003
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1038 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Library Science and Publishing

... 2002) 0 8130 2568 0 Conrad, Joseph. Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. v. 6: 1917-1919 Ed. Davies, Laurence & Karl, Frederick R. 22cm.628p.12i11. Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad £BO.OO Camb. UP (12.2002) 0 521 56195 7 Cudjoe, Selwyn R ...

Published: Friday 20 December 2002
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2355 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

Literature

... US (4.2003) 0 7910 6366 6 John Milton. 23cm.128p. Bloom’s Bio-critiques S. £21.95 Chelsea Ho, US (4.2003) 0 7910 6370 4 Joseph Conrad. 23cm.128p. Bloom’s Bio-critiques S. £21.95 Chelsea Ho, US (4.2003) 0 7910 6371 2 Byron, Glennis. Dramatic Monologue. 20cm ...

Published: Friday 25 July 2003
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1748 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

DORSET/WILTSHIRE BORDERS A fantily ltouse set in gardens and grotmcls of 2'h acres in a popular village 2 ..

... Yealm possibly the prettiest waterside home in Devon'. His father, Capt John, was like one of the better characters in a Joseph Conrad novel, both hard and forgiving 'We get a lot of boats competing here because of our ever-changing handicap system,' says ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7341 | Page: 129 | Tags: none

Sutherland , Brora Brora 5.5 miles, Inverness 60 miles, Inverness Airport 67 miles A Highland Estate with ..

... in English-her third language after German and French -gave her words the rich unexpectedness found in Isek Dinesen and Joseph Conrad. She conquered her adopted language, becoming a Fellow of the R oyal Society ofLiterature, receiving an OBE. In 1992, she ...

Published: Thursday 02 March 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3486 | Page: 114 | Tags: none