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A 'Right Royal Steeplechase

... West. Our Family Affairs, by E. F. Benson. Piccadilly in Three Centuries, by. Arthur Irwin Dascent. II The Rescue, by Joseph Conrad. The Captives, by Hugh Walpole. In the Mountains (anonymous)'. The Vanity Girl, by Compton Mackenzie. The Top of the ...

Published: Saturday 27 November 1920
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1605 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

The Popular Books of Nineteen-Twenty

... 'Popular Books of Margot's masterpiece of alarums and excursions was the beSt seller of the year, beating even novels But in Joseph Conrad's Rescue and Gilbert Frankau's Peter Jackson we got Stories that continue. A FRIEND of mine, who is a busy man, always ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1212 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

The Breviary of a Bookman

... grand manner, like Terris, and Toole and Irving. His English is more limited than that of another famous Pole by birth, Joseph Conrad, but so musical, so melting, in the mouth of Paurel, singer and Great Lover. 'Twould all, â– with a happy ending, go strong ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1315 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

YOUTH AND YEARS IN NEW BOOKS

... century ago Mr. Hind was the guest of Mr. Wells at Spade House has he, Hind, for once, forgotten a name Sandgate, and Mr. Joseph Conrad, emerged from the inland farmhouse, where he was then living, was another guest I remember H. G.'s quick, blue, watching ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1527 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GAMBLE OF BOOKS

... Hichens. An interesting thing is that Mr. Knittel is a. Swiss, and that he writes in English, which recalls the case of Mr Joseph Conrad, now a master of English, once a Polish boy. Mr. Hichens, who is not accustomed to give praise where it is not due, thinks ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1739 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

BOOKS OF THE YEAR THAT'S AWAY

... cannot have been idle, for that is not his way, but nothing new comes from his desk down there at Burwash in Sussex. Mr. Joseph Conrad has spent most of the year on his romance of the Napoleonic times, first going to Corsica for colour and material, and ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1236 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GOSSIP OF AUTHORSHIP

... every author who was his client. The last time I met him was in a Kent train on his way back to London from a visit to Joseph Conrad, near Canterbury. He told me how that distinguished writer was getting on with his new novel of Napoleon's time. It would ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1922
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1582 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

SUMMER BOOKS IN LONDON: The Summer Season of Books ends with the London Season of Society, although that may be ..

... not, maybe, in its ancient beauty, at a trifling price, but it is back again plentifully. For instance, you can get Mr. Joseph Conrad's Tales of Unrest at half-a- crown, a most worthy greeting. Equally grateful it is to have a large popular public awaiting ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1922
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1420 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THE BROAD HIGHWAY of BOOKS

... drawn by the subject, or because they want to see Mr. Walpole. They will not grudge a lecture to Thomas Hardy, another to Joseph Conrad, or a third to the realists, Galsworthy, Wells and Bennett, but when they are invited to contemplate the younger generation ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1922
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1685 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

How The Book World Wags

... distant author drew them into a knowledge of a little by-product from his pen. Some of you may have tried the novels of Mr. Joseph Conrad and found them rather hard going, because they can be that. He has just been on a visit to America and the Americans found ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1923
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1783 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

A Regiment of New Novels

... no patience. It is to be a big season of novels, and most of our well-known novelists will be in it some how. Even Mr. Joseph Conrad, who is not an abundant writer, has a story coming along, The Rover. So has Mr. Arnold Bennett, his fresh offering being ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1923
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1639 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

The General Reader as Boodman

... It does not follow that a best-selling novel of one time will be in that enviable position next time. Thus we have had Joseph Conrad's new book, The Rover, published late in the season. He is not popular in the ordinary meaning of that word, and he would ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1923
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1735 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs