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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

HOVELS THAT PAY

... Edgar Jephson, en)ittcd the tinelean—their humour was wholesome. Mr. Shapland entered into a lengthy dis• mission of Joseph Conrad's ideals, clisoussing his noveki, Almayer's Folly, The Out. cast of the Island, Nostromo, and, above all, The ...

Published: Thursday 27 March 1924
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 592 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WHAT Is LABOUR WORTH?

... conference at Abernven it said that I.sfki colliers in Mull Valley had ne4 done n dire., work for 12 month.. A drawing or Joseph Conrad by Professor W Mothenstein has been presented by Mrs. E. Mond to the National Portrait Gallery. ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1925
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 318 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

A POLE WHO WROTE IN ENGLISH. THE CHARM OF JOSEPH CONRAD

... WHO WROTE IN ENGLISH. THE CHARM OF JOSEPH CONRAD. A meeting between Conrad and Galsworthy on board ahp, before either had published anything, wag referred to in the Ext•asion lecture on Monday night on Joseph Conrad. Both were cherishing the desire to ...

Published: Thursday 23 February 1928
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 444 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MARITIME MEMORIES t A SAILOR'S LITERARY TREASURE CHEST

... rather sardonic manner. It is perhaps inevitable that he should be compared with that master of all seafaring authors, Joseph Conrad. There is. however, considerable judtilication tor the comparison. Mr. McFee no robust and untrained recorder of impressions ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1935
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1000 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE CASINO MYSTERY, by Elaine Hamilton. (Ward Lock, 7/6)

... and infuriating manner. The title is the truest thing In it. HOME COOKERY, bp Jessie Conrad. Uarrolds., 3/6). mos. JOSEPH CONRAD has had may in. opportunities on her travels to collect unusual recipes, and this little book contains a selection of simple ...

Published: Thursday 05 March 1936
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 334 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IN -SEARCH OF GOLD

... amidships. Some of the tug's crew Jumped for safety on to the Joseph Conrad and inanaged to cut the tow-rope in time to prevent the tug being draggel under. rigged ship, the Joseph Conrad: The Joseph Conrad, meanwhile, was heading straight for some concrete pylons ...

Published: Thursday 02 April 1936
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 597 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BOOKS OF THE DAY. Reviewed by HELEN COCKBURN. BIOGRAPHY OF OUR GREATEST HISTORIAN : A SECOND DECLINE AND FALL ..

... the cricket Reid, and of the land dried up by the suu and deluged by rain. The contributors Include Siegfried Sassoon. Joseph Conrad, Liam OTioherty, A. ti. Street. D. 11. Lawrence, W. H Hudson. 11. E. Hates, Mary Webb, Henry Williamson, and Hugh de Selincourt ...

Published: Thursday 02 April 1936
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 2211 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RENAMED

... RENAMED. Mr. Villiers re-named her the Joseph Conrad. She is 203 tuns gross and 149 nett, has a length of 100.8 feet, and her beam is 25.2 feet. Under her new name. Harwich Is her port of registration. The Joseph Conrad left Harwich in October. 1934, and ...

Published: Thursday 02 April 1936
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 472 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BAD WEATHER

... Soloman Group. _ _ Towards the end of January of this year, the Joseph Conrad set sail for the island, and it was at Auckland, New Zealand that Mr. Anthony Evershed left the Joseph Conrad—his home for eighteen months—to sail on in its search for gold. ...

Published: Thursday 02 April 1936
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 177 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

llLocal Men Reported Missing. PILOT-OFFICER S. J. A. EVERSHED

... '‘ 1 heavy-weight for the school. After leaving Clifton he sailed round the world in the small square-rigged ship The Joseph Conrad, under A. J. Villiers. „. ‘ 1.;.::••?••• , . •,•• .**;• • • • • .• 4 3 • • . . . . . . „. . , • • ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1940
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 291 | Page: 6 | Tags: none