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...Charles Landry’s first career as a Brussels bureaucrat ended with a failed exam for a permanent contract at the age of 27....
...In Joseph Conrad’s novel Nostromo (1904), Charles Gould, the British proprietor of a Latin American silver mine, becomes dangerously dependent on his treasure....
...Among his thousands of books are first editions by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens — a three-volume Great Expectations is offered for £3,000-£5,000 (1861, Chapman and Hall)....
...Its membership has maintained its lustre over the years, since hosting Virginia Woolf (whose father opened the Reading Room here), Joseph Conrad, Agatha Christie, EM Forster, Winston Churchill and Bram Stoker...
...When Charles Gaines was in elementary school in Newark, New Jersey, in the 1950s, he showed an aptitude for drawing....
...It took the imagination of another member of the clan – Polizzi’s stepson, the artist and sculptor Conrad Shawcross – to conquer the aesthetic hurdles of the property....
...Like Joseph Conrad’s character Charles Marlow and Philip Roth’s Nathan Zuckerman, le Carré’s George Smiley recurs in his novels, reminding readers of the author’s enduring concerns....
...London’s Thames in the 19th century was, in its way, as sinister a place as Conrad’s Congo....
...As the great historian Conrad Russell put it, parliament was an event, not an institution....
...I pause for an ice cream near the set of looping sculptures by Conrad Shawcross, leaving from the Court Lane exit....
...Planet Europe Charles' suspect count European Council president Charles Michel has been busy wooing foreign leaders and his latest trip saw him appeal to African heads of state and government with a striking...
...I remember getting turned on to the power of storytelling by Charles Dickens, when my mother read Nicholas Nickleby to me as a child. Do you have a writing routine?...
...Neither Charles Dickens nor George Orwell nor F Scott Fitzgerald even lived to that age. This trend is not universal....
...The writer is a project leader for Wolfram Research and co-authored this article with Conrad Wolfram, its chief executive...
...It’s now clear who was ‘misguided’ before the financial crisis / From Conrad DeQuadros...
...Charles Dickens wrote The Pickwick Papers on one. Just inside the entrance, framed endorsements by various royal families from around the world adorn the walls....
...Pirie had got his hands on the top copy, which included annotations prepared for Charles I, her successor but one....
...Reviewing the book for the FT, Charles Clover said it was a “must-read for anyone hoping to navigate China’s new economy”....
...Asterix and the Missing Scroll, by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/Asterix RRP$17.99 The indomitable Gaul is back in this second outing from Ferri and Conrad...
...Where, even, would Charles Dickens be without the magazines that first carried his works? Despite this, media histories often barely acknowledge magazines....
...Like Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov, Jin writes his novels in his adopted language. English is, he believes, a “spacious language” with room for different elements, tones, and energies....
...An alternative is one of 290 condo-hotels at Conrad Fort Lauderdale Beach Residences, where prices start at $500,000....
...The many worlds of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling are here....
...Conceptual works by trendy names – notably installations by Conrad Shawcross and Mark Wallinger alongside Titian in 2012 – have entered the National Gallery during Penny’s reign but more than any of the...
...Conrad have produced a brand new Asterix adventure that’s all but indistinguishable from the originals....
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