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While academic critics have been busy for a generation flensing Melville's whale and rendering it into midnight oil, they have neglected another great writer who made the sea his theater and the deck of a ship his stage. Joseph Conrad???monocled, with salt-rimed beard, at the wheel of a clipper?is too romantic a figure for modern fashion in literary heroes. Yet in his work, Conrad was not a romantic any more than Melville was a mere spinner of "sea yarns" or Shakespeare only a writer of historical pageants. His themes were the classic themes of character...
...Quarryman and Quarrymaster, Mrs. William P. Roth's five-gaited saddler, Chief of Longview?were entered. Young horses, such as Mountain Pippin, a three-gaited saddle horse owned by Jane's Place; Lieutenant W. M. Cleland's six-year-old Irish hunter Margot; H. Hollon Crowell's hunter Sir Conrad???won more than their usual share of blues. In the harness classes, there was a seasoned show-horse which no comparatively new competitor could hope to displace. This was Mr. & Mrs. Paul Moore's aging bay harness mare, Seaton Pippin. On the opening night she won her 185th blue ribbon...
...JOSEPH CONRAD???Ford Madox Ford ?Little, Brown (|2.50). Ford Madox Ford collaborated with Conrad in the writing of Romance, The Inheritors, The Nature of a Crime. In this monograph, which is built up like a house of blocks out of pointed anecdotes, snatches of conversation, brief and vivid scenes recollected, the personality of Joseph Conrad is projected as he revealed it to a human being during many years of close intimacy. You have Conrad hypnotizing a country grocer into giving him three years unlimited credit, throwing teacups into the fire when heated by argument with a lady, sailing...
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