... obviously a superb film had been in progress, as I judge, for some three-quarters of an hour. It was raining much harrier than Joseph Conrad, the author of Typhoon, knew anything at all about, and on the turgid bosom of some swollen river-- Mississippi, Hudson ...

... changeless, ever-changing high-roads. Whatever its origin the phrase sums up the informing spirit of that great writer, Joseph Conrad, which is at once mysterious and incommunicable. The commonplace that all art reveals itself in its own terms and cannot ...

... different from suspense. Criti cism should be constructive. Therefore let this brilliant pro ducer, since he appears to like Joseph Conrad, leave buses and bombs and give us a film of Nostromo or Almayer's Folly, or even that lovely book, Victory, if Shepherd's ...

... how's and wherefore's of the novelist's art, as manifest both in the classic and the modern. The perceptive study of Joseph Conrad brings into focus that noble, exciting non-English writer in English often poet in prose. Conrad forms an interesting contrast ...

... Kna s HERMAN MELVILLE'S life is very curiously divided. His time of seafaring was not long, and he had no desire, as Joseph Conrad had, to become proficient as a mariner. He sailed before the mast to Liverpool in 1837, but returned to America and was ...

... least acceptable of that author's long, illustrious list of works. The Moment of Silence is a brilliant re-evaluation of Joseph Conrad with which ranks, in fresh ness as to perception, the essay Stendhal and Beyle. And in this fiction group, the contemporary ...

... 1 Unlucky Jim Elspeth Grant According to Richard Brooks-- whose screen version of Joseph Conrad's early novel, Lord Jim, was chosen for this year's Royal Film Performance-- any body bent on making a success ful film of a Conrad work must be prepared to ...

... shows Mr. Somerset Maugham once more as one of the most able dramatists we possess. The Globe Theatre. f you haven't read Joseph Conrad's book you will be rather puzzled by Mr. Basil Macdonald Hastings' dramatisation, Victory, produced the other day by Miss ...

... due to my anxiety to find a reason for the comparative failure of The Rescue, the film at the New Gallery, adapted from Joseph Conrad's novel of the same name. This film seemed to me to have two faults. First, the story was too muddled. It pursued Conrad's ...

... idealism William Morris would thoroughly have approved, in a series of dampish cottages in the Romney Marsh area. He became Joseph Conrad's neighbour, collaborator and friend, and also moved into the urbane circle surrounding Henry James in his house at Rye ...