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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... were afraid to venture on to its filthy, dangerous streets. And ,he ity Lng, tnd of seafaring tradition, bu.. spirit of Joseph Conrad, the gloomy Polish exile who wrote so brilliantly in what was in fact his third language. Bragg's series began last week ...
... romantic novels. No matter how hard I tried, I could not persuade her to share my enthusiasm for the novels of Henry James, Joseph Conrad and George Eliot. After she passed away, I began to reflect on her life, and eventually it dawned on me that she read to ...
... Poland has made a remarkable contribution to European civilisation through people like Frederick Chopin, Marie Curie, Joseph Conrad and Isaac Singer, the short story writer. All these wonderful people have been produced by Poland and it's a betrayal of ...
... and Cornwell, did I have to read Adam HocbschiWs King Leopold's Ghost, a story of genocidal horror le the Belgium Congo? Joseph Conrad saw it. Roger Casement saw it the mutilation sad destraction of tea million Africans. Towards the end of the year Mary ...
... Scott Fitzgerald: Tender Is the Night 1934, sold for 54.200 A First English Edition of 'Victory, An Island 'hale' by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) sold for $25,000 at a New York sale. This particular copy was dedicated by the Polish author to Perceval and ...
... do his best to concur with the director's wishes and read in advance Heart of Darkness, the slim and modest novella by Joseph Conrad on which Coppola's story was based. On foot of these not unreasonable conditions, he would be paid a million dollars for ...
... brouhaha about Auden, whose centenary falls on February 21. Other anniversaries this year include the 150th birthdays of Joseph Conrad and George Gissing (every aspiring literary journalist should read the latter's New Grub Street, if only to be deterred ...