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Laughing Anne

... Laughing Anne (Leicester Square) HERBERT WILCOX'S Laughing Anne is a very free adaptation of a short story by Joseph Conrad called Because of the Dollars. It deals with a schooner captain who meets a derelict French singer in one of the less reputable ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

TYPHOON

... TYPHOON. By Joseph Conrad. H rine via mi. 6s.) Great, slow-moving effects unfold themselves on Mr. joseph Conrad's pages. This Ancient Mariner, like the greatest of his kind, demands a patient hearing, and the listener must resign himself whole-heartedly ...

Published: Wednesday 29 April 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

'Twixt Land and Sea

... 'Twixt Land and Sea. By Joseph Conrad. {J. M. Dent and Sous.) Mr. Conrad has long been known for a lover of the sea. Like Jacob for Rachel, he has served for her, and not so much to make her his as to make himself hers. There are those of us who would ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 450 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY.LOUNGER: MASTER MARINER AND MASTER MIND; Joseph Conrad's Ego

... '..'.'.'.■.■'■■-■.■Wu) II. -in J.. ..nl,!i (H MASTER MARINER AND MASTER MIND Joseph Conrad's Ego. It is impossible to deal adequately in a column with Mr. Joseph Conrad's ego, as revealed by himself. His are not as other Reminiscences. cences. The ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1234 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

Victory

... Victory. Bv Joseph Conrad. Methuen A disillusioned old Swedish philosopher lay dying in London, and at his bedside sat his only son, to whom his wisdom crystallised in the direction Look on make no sound. They were the last words of a man who had spent ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 481 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE BOOK AND ITS STORY: AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS

... Lingard had condemned to lifelong exile in this wilderness. But Almayer seems somehow to have An Outcast of the Islands. By Joseph Conrad. London: T. Fisher Uiuviu. forgotten Ai'ssn, a woman to be reckoned with Her sublime devotion to Willems is proof against ...

Published: Wednesday 06 May 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1349 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: MID-CHANNEL, AT THE ROYALTY; THE JEWISH ART THEATRE OF VILNA, AT THE KINGSWAY; THE BALANCE ..

... threatened to become dull. THE FAMOUS NOVELIST WHOSE 44 SECRET AGENT WAS PRODUCED LAST WEEK AT THE AMBASSADORS' MR. JOSEPH CONRAD. Mr. Joseph Conrad is one of the most distinguished of the novelists of to-day, and much interest has been aroused by the dramatic ...

Published: Wednesday 08 November 1922
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1630 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Genius in Slippers

... itself to itself, but the thing can be done, and few great writers of recent years have done it more successfully than Joseph Conrad. The main facts of his unique career were, of course, generally known but his way of life, his habits and personal opinions ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1926
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2711 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: The Great Conrad

... ^The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard The Great Conrad. This is a tremendous fellow, this Joseph Conrad. With out any preliminary trum peting, or boosting, or blaring, or swank in general, out he quietly comes with a new story of 317 pages which -knocks ...

Published: Wednesday 19 December 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2811 | Page: 38 | 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 

The Literary Lounger: Genius

... artistic ideal. Very recently two of the greatest figures in European litera ture have gone from us Anatole France and Joseph Conrad. Fun damentally different in every other respect, they both possessed the common characteristic that they wrote only with ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2654 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review