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A LITERARY LETTER

... whether it be praised or dispraised is immaterial. It is all too late. 'Phe indefatigable enthusiasts who collect Mr. Joseph Conrad's various books in first editions, and such collectors are numerous, will find themselves up against three separate first ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2076 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Champagne

... discover that foreigners are able to achieve a mastery of his language. I fie most noteworthy example is, of course, Mr. Joseph Conrad, a Pole, who has acquired an acknowledged mastery of our tongue, and whose books have an assured place among the English ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2150 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The West End Booksellers

... in the direction of cookery books. Mrs. George Meredith wrote a book on the art, and one is hourly expected from Mrs. Joseph Conrad. Meanwhile the author of that fine volume, A Garden of Herbs, Eleanor Sinclair Rohde, together with Mary Duke Gordon, late ...

Published: Saturday 26 August 1922
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2190 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

The ART of the HISTORICAL NOVEL

... the spring in Italy, or the autumn in Scotland, independent of office-stool, telephone, or time- sheet? I used to hear Joseph Conrad deplore his hard fate, yet the fact remains that after fifteen years' writing he was making over six thousand pounds a ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2467 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: MirĂ³'s The Passion of Our Lord

... 10s. 6d. net. T. FISHER UNWIN. Yorkk the Adventurer, and Other Stories. By Louis Becke. 5s. net. Tales of Hearsay. By Joseph Conrad, With a Preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. 7s. 6d. net. A Sheaf of Memories. By Frank Scudamore. 15s. net. The Man Who ...

Published: Saturday 14 March 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2590 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LET TER: A Great and Valuable Series The Vogue of Peacock English and German Misunderstandings

... for example, four novels that may rank as literature, the authors being Henry James, Anthony Hope, Arnold Bennett, and Joseph Conrad. I hope to write about all four in due., course. Leaving fiction and coming to belles lettres I note a new edition of the ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1911
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2492 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Most Popular Novels of the Hour--Mrs. Alfred Trench--James the Second in Exile

... here are at least a dozen such novels of the moment:-- Hilda Lessways; By Arnold Bennett. Methuen Under Western Eyes. By Joseph Conrad. (Methuen.) ft Peter and Wendy. By J. M. Barrie. Hodder Stough- A ton.) A Ship's Company. By W. W. Jacobs. llodder Stough- ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1911
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2349 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Marie Corelli as a Letter Writer

... his father gave distinction. It will have a certain value among collectors from the fact that there is a contribution by Joseph Conrad, written in conjunction with Mr. Ford, or Mr. Hueffer. There is a letter from Mr. Conrad asking, Why on earth did we do ...

Published: Saturday 17 May 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2537 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS

... the French Revolution. LITERATURE IN MY TIME, by Compton Mackenzie (Rich and Cowan. 0s.). THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF JOSEPH CONRAD (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d.). KITCHEN RANGING, by Pearl Adam (Cape. 6s.). 775 recipes from all countries. THE GOSPEL OF THE SUN ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2478 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Mark Twain and the Critics

... verse concerning tobacco and its virtues. A still newer volume is Laughing Anne, and One Day More (6s. net), two plays by Joseph Conrad, with an introduction by John Galsworthy. The conjunction of the names of two novelists so eminent gives the little book ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2436 | Page: 12 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: W. Robertson Nicoll on Dickens

... that kind of work a really finished performance. I am aware that two brilliant masters of style at the present day, Mr. Joseph Conrad and Mr. George Moore, both dictate their work, but the type-written copy of both these authors which I have seen bear witness ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2215 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review