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THE WORLD OF BOOKS

... Matt Ther ie ow itherto unsuspected advantag frica, and her book is caloul M oor aversion and dread. =e scene bi R. (By Joseph Conrad). ALS. Mr. Conrad, nson, “A novelist,” says fr. T Fawiliar Preface, “lives in bis work stands there, the only reality in ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1912
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1182 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FOR THE HANDY-MAN

... tion. Tbey come with minds open to instruction. THACKERAIS PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. I only met Thackeray mite. writes Joseph Conrad, and that was at the table of my friends in Wiltshire, the We!bores of the Barrow. The party. except for the great novelist ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1912
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 584 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Paktum &dot, &r... far *O

... with victory. The Allies must know this, and are likely to oaks the west of it. Writing in the Tiara this morning. Mr. Joseph Conrad suggeets that Constantinople might become an independent, city under a guarardee of all the Powers. It is a picturesque ...

Published: Thursday 07 November 1912
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 802 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LANGUAGE LEARNED FROM FISHERMEN

... in French, but perhaps the most wonderful example of & man capturing a language that is not his owu is supplied by Hr. Joseph Conrad, a Pole, who writes exquisite English, and be is one of the master stylist* of his time. He learned our lanage (says a ...

THE GREAT PEARL MYSTERY

... perished intense aonv was, indeed, a thrilling triumph for science and a story winch would require the pen of a Hugo a Joseph Conrad, a Stevenson, Llark Russell for its adequate recount»*; Another notable branch of science in which patient labour has ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1913
Newspaper: Tamworth Herald
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1178 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A STORY OF THE SEAS

... most picturesque , deieription of the for of ihe,!' Empress of Ireland, so picturesque that itreade,like a rage, .from Joseph_' Conrad,' appears, in a WashingtOti newspaper in fol 7 special despatch front Quebee': , - in the lobtik-hf Chateau Frontense ...

Published: Monday 01 June 1914
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 775 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BROMWICH

... 000,030. The money re (aired will he borrowed by Treasury by means of terminable annuities. MR. CONRAD'S NEW BegiE. Mr. Joseph Conrad has just finished his new long nuvel. on which he has been cr.gaged for twenty•two months. It. is a story of the Eastern ...

Published: Thursday 09 July 1914
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 739 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THY LOVE

... a-sailing you in the dead stillnem of your present where nothing move, except the irrecoverable minutes of your life.—Joseph Conrad, from Chanee. 11 I f ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1914
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 253 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

THE COTTON QUEST{ON

... Maarten Maarten', the novelist., whose death is announced, was a notable example among those writers who, like Mr. Joseph Conrad, have made English their adopted language. He was born in 1858 at Amsterdam, and his real amine was Joost Marius Willem ...

Published: Friday 06 August 1915
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 387 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

VICTORY

... VICTORY. Mr. Joseph Conrad's new novel deals with the same land of setting, and a way with the same kind of problem, ‘‘Lord Jim. It is story of the South See Islands and the strange phases of human life and character to be found there—the same weird ...

Published: Monday 11 June 1917
Newspaper: Burton Daily Mail
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 366 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STONE URBAN COUNCIt

... Galsworthy. tions are a Among the literary contribu- titled The Pil om: by -Rudyard Kipling, en- grim’s Way ;’ an article by Joseph Conrad, describing the author’s ex- periences in Poland at the ‘beginning of. the war; a play by Sir J. M. Barrie; a French Hospital ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1918
Newspaper: Staffordshire Advertiser
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1369 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE STORY OF THE YEAR

... interested in the exhibition of the great French impressionist, Henri Matisse. The two books of the year are, beyond doubt, Joseph Conrad's Arrow Gold and Max Beerbohm's Seven Men. A number interesting war memories have been published, including' the books ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1920
Newspaper: Tamworth Herald
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3504 | Page: 7 | Tags: none