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The Literary Lounger: Conrad

... have approached their task in so modest a spirit of self- abnegation as M. Jean Aubry in the two handsome volumes of Joseph Conrad's Life and Letters which he has edited. He has sternly forbidden himself criticism and discursion, though the self-denying ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2835 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE: SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE; THE HUNTED; AURORA DAWN; CLOSE QUARTERS

... literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. I could well believe that Mr. Guerard had studied the Brontes and Joseph Conrad, and that Mr. Wouk is an enthusiast about Sterne and Anatole France, while neither of them shows any sign of caring for ...

Published: Wednesday 04 February 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1356 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

THE UNCOMMON READER

... how's and wherefore's of the novelist's art, as manifest both in the classic and the modern. The perceptive study of Joseph Conrad brings into focus that noble, exciting non-English writer in English often poet in prose. Conrad forms an interesting contrast ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1957
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1373 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

OUR BOOKSHELF: OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE; THE HEART OF THE MATTER; ALL THE KING'S MEN; THE BRIGHT PROMISE; THE ..

... (haber and haber 10s. bd.) THE VOICE OF THE CORPSE. By Max Murray. (Michael Joseph 8s. bd.) THE HEART OF THE MATTER. When Joseph Conrad died in 1924 there seemed to have died with him a whole literary tradition. He had no immediate followers and a stream ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1367 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

THE LIBRARY: Famous Novelists Active, After All!

... J i (Fisher Unwin.) Little Stories of Courtship. By Mary Stuart Cutting. (Hodder.) jjw The Mirror of the Sea. By Joseph Conrad. (Methuen I The Baroness Orczy The popular playwright and author has just published a new Scarlet Pimpernel story, entitled ...

Published: Wednesday 10 October 1906
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1675 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

PURITAN OF FLORENCE: A New Biography of Savonarola; A Study of Conrad and his Characters; Antarctica and Saudi ..

... admirable subject for Mr. de la Bedoyere's biography. Mr. Richard Curie has written an original kind of literary study in JOSEPH CONRAD and His Charac ters (Heinemann. 21s.). For one thing, Mr. Curie analyses not the writer so much as his stories, and the ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1541 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

THE HEIGHT OF TRUTH: The Story of Wartime High-Altitude Photography; A French Soldier in Algeria; Hollywood and ..

... block. At one time it was claimed to be the oldest inn in England, and it was a favourite haunt of Charles Dickens and Joseph Conrad. The Committee for the Preservation of Rural Kent is trying hard to prevent its destruction, but their efforts may be in ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1718 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

SOME NEW BOOKS OF THE MOMENT: THE EPIC OF JAN SMUTS

... his back upon it, though in his heart he had he-rd the call, which later comes again. The Shadow-Line: A Confession. By Joseph Conrad. (Dent.) 5s. The purpose of this book is expressed in the query on the outside cover Why did the captain and the silent ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1917
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1484 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

WE ARE INTRODUCED TO THE LADIES

... Steps) for the apparent aimlessness which, in reality, conceals the most artistic and rigid adherence to a definite plan Joseph Conrad (in particular, the Conrad of Under Western liyes and The Secret Agent). And where could Mr. Palmer, consciously or uncon ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1474 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

BE ATT Y, KEYES and the NELSON TOUCH

... The two first volumes of Men and Books, a series of Literary Biographies, published by Longmans Green at 10s. 6d., are JOSEPH CONRAD, by Oliver Warner, and BERNARD SHAW, by A. C. Ward. DOSTOIEVSKY (Arthur Barker. 8s. 6d.), by C. M. Woodhouse, is a further ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1732 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

THE ENCHANTMENT OF R.L.S.: A New Biography of Stevenson, with Some New Material which has Hitherto been Unavailable

... only as a scholar, but as a sailor who knows its waters both under sail and in steam. He had his own full-rigged ship, Joseph Conrad, and sailed her among the islands of the East Indies, and he served, as squadron commander of landing craft, on the Arakan ...

Published: Saturday 04 October 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1603 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review