Refine Search

Newspaper

Graphic

Countries

Regions

London, England

Counties

London, England

Access Type

76

Type

More details

Graphic

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 

Max Makes a Mockery of Men and Manners

... present who is in the public eye at the moment everybody from Lytton Strachey to Lord Hugh Cecil, and from Sidney Webb to Joseph Conrad. Every victim of Max's humour had been invited, and, since there are eighty-three pictures on show, you can imagine how ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1224 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

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 

Other

... Feathers. By A. E. W. Mason. Red Pot tage. By Mary Cholmondeley. In Kedar's Tents. By H. Seton Merriman. Almayer's Folly. By Joseph Conrad. (Eveleigh Nash and Grayson.) 2s. 6d. each. These books belong to Nash's Great Novel Library, and are marvellouslv cheap ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 457 | Page: 22 | Tags: Other 

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 

Other

... By R. Louis Stevenson. The Shadow of a Crime. By Hall Caine. Round the Corner. By Gilbert Cannan. Tales of Unrest. By Joseph Conrad. I Will Repay. By Baroness Orczy. Tiie Beetle. By Richard Marsh. (Eveleigh Nash and Grayson.) 2s. Gd. each. Of All Things ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1922
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 518 | Page: 36 | Tags: Other 

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 

Other

... Mrs. Peel has used for twenty five years. A Handbookof Cookery for a Small House. By Jessie Conrad. With a preface by Joseph Conrad. (Heinemann.) This book, which will become prized by the bibliophile by reason of its preface, rightly holds that good ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1923
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 539 | Page: 42 | Tags: Other