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JOSEPH CONRAD

... JOSEPH CONRAD Joseph Conrad (Korzeniouski) was a more amazing man than any character in his own interesting novels. Born in Poland, he never spoke English until he was nineteen, never opened an English grammar in his life, yet he wrote all his books in ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1928
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 307 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MOFFAT LIBRARY ADDITIONS

... Henson; Letters Dr John Brown.” edited his son and D. Forrest. The following authors are also represented—F. T. Billion, Joseph Conrad, Tom Gallon. George Maxim Gorky, W. Petl Stanley J. Weyman, and Sir George Trevelyan. ...

FAILURES AT FIRST. A publisher apparently lgses on nearly every unknown author, | And nearly every famous ..

... A publisher apparently lgses on nearly every unknown author, | And nearly every famous writer (was a failure at first. Joseph Conrad was one of these, and ‘“‘Aylmer’s Folly’ was by no means an immediate! success. Only 750 copies were printed, and a great ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1928
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE MOFFAT LIBRARY

... the following wellknown* authors: •'The New Theology,” by Rev. R. J. Campbell; Coniston,” Winston Churchill; •typhoon,” Joseph Conrad; Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther,” by the author of Elisabeth and her German Garden”; ** Where Love Leads.” Charles ...

REGISTERED AT THE GENERAL POST OFFICE A 8 A NEWSPAPER. PUBLIC NOTICES

... 3in., sin., 7in. and 12 in.; cheap to clear.—Underwood Weaving Mills. BOOK BARGAIN.—I 2 Beautifully Bound Volumeg by Joseph Conrad, £5; or sold singly, 10s per volume.—Address No. 6150, KExpress Office. CONCRETE Flags, Bordering, Garden Lime, Bulb Boxes ...

Published: Monday 02 June 1952
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 164 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RECOVERY OF A BODY

... Hume; a lengthened disquisition the Looker-ou uu matters political and religious, aud 41 A Year’s Diplomacy in Pekin.” Mr Joseph Conrad okreea his short, hut stirring, romance The Heart of Darkness”; ami the lavly- writer, who lias been busy lon-ome time ...

LITERARY NOTES

... LITERARY NOTES. Joseph Conrad makes such a rare appearance in the magazines that a story by him Is an event of more than usual interest. As a writer of sea stories he has no equal, and in The Tale, which is published in the October number of the Strand ...

Published: Friday 12 October 1917
Newspaper: Barrhead News
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CRYSTAL GAZER’S PREDICTION

... why he likes plays produced at the Bavoy, where the Embankment makes such an excellent and handy promenade. The late Mr Joseph Conrad, on the momentous first night.of ““The Secret Agent,”” was imterviewed in his hotel by a literary critic what time Mrs ...

Published: Saturday 06 November 1926
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 260 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CHIIBTMAS CLUBS

... STIIEET, BAREIHEAD, A cumber t New Novels have recently been published. Ree.ot additions iuclude tiro following—Viotory, by Joseph Conrad ; Michael O'Hol'orar, by G. Stratton orter, author's•' of Girl of the Liniberlost : The Great Corer, by F B. ifonng; Toe ...

Published: Friday 22 October 1915
Newspaper: Barrhead News
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MONDAY. MAY 21, 1928 CREAT SEA STORIES

... morbid and often unpleasant. Victor Hugo was to melodramatic. Yet one of our best sea writers was a foreigner, a Pole, Joseph Conrad. Yet Conrad could be criticised. For, on the whole, he was net so Eopula.r with KEnglish seamen as many thought. He wazs ...

Published: Monday 21 May 1928
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 374 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

6.o—Time Sign^ L Nowt

... Association, by Lady Cynthia Colville. 9.30— John Kemp, a radio play by Peter C:eswell foundcd on the novel, Romance by Joseph Conrad and F. M. Hueffer. 10— The Cave of Torment. 9.o—Big Ben Minute. News. 9.15— Farewell to the Festival, a last visit ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1951
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 388 | Page: 1 | Tags: none