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The Library: How Long Should a Novel Be?

... average jog-trot novel, such as has to be written by the author who makes a living out of it. If Mr. H. G. Wells, or Mr. Joseph Conrad, or Mr. Arnold Bennett, or any other licensed weaver, like to spin the v^arn out half as long again, that is for them to ...

Published: Wednesday 28 September 1910
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 713 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

THE THEATRES: MADAME DUSE AT THE WALDORF

... at the Royalty Theatre, of a comedy entitled The Arw Feliiiy by Miss Laurence Alma-Tadema, followed by One Day More, by Joseph Conrad, a dramatisation of the author's story To-morrow. PRINCESS ARISUGAWA PRINCE ARISUGAWA Now on a Visit to this Country. ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1905
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 739 | Page: 12 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Log: A Civil List Mystery

... demand, and never were there more media for it. One is, therefore, a little surprised at the grant of £100 per annum to Mr. Joseph Conrad, who surely would find little difficulty in making that sum a score of times annuallyr would he but condescend to adapt ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1911
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 940 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Have the Clergy Deteriorated?

... Thomas Wise's wonderful bibliographies, making the eleventh for which he is respon sible; that is to say, A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad, which, although marked as printed for private circulation only, can, I think, be obtained from one or two booksellers ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1921
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2085 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A Novel with a Style

... A LITERARY LETTER A Novel with a Style. al z\| London, February 2, 1914. Mr. Joseph Conrad published his first novel in 1895-- Almayer's Folly-- and, as I think, his best novel, The Nigger of the Narcissus in 1897. He is responsible for some eighteen ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1914
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2039 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

Under Western Eyes

... Under Western Eyes. By Joseph Conrad. Methuen The Slav never fails of fascination for us, Christian though he be, and European as we fondly think him; yet so exotic a compound of the barbaric and the mystic, at once so simple, so elusive, and so cynical ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 975 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

OUR WEEKLY BOOK-LETTER

... Food of the Gods. By II. G. Wells. (Macmillan 6j.) The Truants. By A. E. W. Mason. (Smith, Elder 6s.) Nostromo. By Joseph Conrad. (Harper: 6s.) Theophano. By Frederic Harrison. (Chapman and Hall 6s.) Lindley Kays. By Barry Pain. (Methuen: 6j.) Hearts ...

Published: Wednesday 12 October 1904
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1048 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

THE SHORT STORY BOOK FALLACY

... which it will, some day or night, exactly fit. I feel very much that way towards A Set of Six, the short story volume by Joseph Conrad (Methuen), which, with a few others, I havS Sway with me at the moment. Mr. Conrad calls these tales respectively romantic ...

Published: Wednesday 26 August 1908
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1028 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Younger Generation

... was long for sale in a London bookseller's and the author of Rhoda Fleming wrote an introduction to it. Now we have Mrs. Joseph Conrad under taking the same brave task, and her husband writes a preface with the usual distinction of which he is a master. ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1923
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2132 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

WHAT WE THINK OF THEM: Reviews of Some of the New Books

... when it has been somewhat difficult to obtain. The present edition is graced by a highly-appreciative preface by the late Joseph Conrad. In War and Peace Messrs. Heinemann have produced a masterpiece of modern publishing over fifteen hundred pages in clear ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 965 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... interest for literary folk is undoubtedly Mr. Joseph Conrad's Youth. Here is an extract from a letter by one of our fore most novelists a generous appreciation of a brother author Have you seen the volume Joseph Conrad has just published-- Youth and two other ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1903
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2503 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review