Word: conrad
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Died. Joseph Conrad, 66, famed chronicler of the romance of the sea; in Kent, England; of heart disease. (See Page...
...land which had first inspired his wanderings. In 1884, he became an English subject and in the same year obtained his Master's ticket. When he changed his allegiance from Russia to England, he also changed his name, retaining only part of it, anglicizing its spelling?thus becoming Joseph Conrad...
...presented accounts of five historic American murders, beginning with the Borden case in Fall River, and including the engrossing story of the murders on the barkentine Herbert Fuller−an astonishing marine piece which outdoes Clark Russell and in some points is suggestive of a situation used by Conrad in Chance...
LATITUDES ? Edwin Muir ? Huebsch ($2.00). A collection of criticisms on criticism, and essays about things and persons literary. Carlyle, Nietzsche, Joyce, Conrad, Burns, Dostoyevski all cataloged, labeled and ready for mounting. You may bristle at times at the author's unguarded superlatives of praise or blame...
...benefit, graciously detained them be tween the book covers for an hour or so, but as soon as is polite, they will walk right off the last page, through the back cover, and on with their own all-absorbing concerns. The style is bewilderingly and fascinatingly reminiscent of Conrad, Dickens (in the humorous passages especially), Flaubert, Tolstoi. Even through this land-story there throbs at times the surge of the sea and the pounding of his beloved ship-engines-for McFee is a seaman-author, ex-Chief Engineer of big passenger liners, and far too much in love with...