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...and TS Eliot to Zadie Smith and Zaha Hadid....
...London’s Thames in the 19th century was, in its way, as sinister a place as Conrad’s Congo....
...Many came from Eliot, the great fragmentary modernist....
...The Canadian expat Dunbar, roughly three parts Rupert Murdoch to one part Conrad Black, is a sclerotic paterfamilias of the old school, too caught up in “mergers and acquisition, delegation and rebranding...
...Like TS Eliot, and for similar reasons, he had casually dodgy ideas about Jews, and his depictions of African-Americans were ham-fisted even by the standards of the time....
...The Worlds of Joseph Conrad, by Maya Jasanoff, William Collins, RRP£25 A window into the world at the dawn of the 20th century through the life and work of a great novelist....
...It’s now clear who was ‘misguided’ before the financial crisis / From Conrad DeQuadros...
...Camera angles change; ideas are taken up and dropped; quotations (from Werner Herzog, Edith Sitwell, Edward Lear, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound) are unattributed and unexplained....
...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...
...For George Eliot, Joseph Conrad and John Buchan, Blackwood’s was the vital stepping stone; for Anthony Trollope and Elizabeth Gaskell, it was Cornhill; for Arthur Conan Doyle, The Strand....
...This collection of mini-essays warmly endorses books he has been rereading, from his much-favoured Joseph Conrad to the overlooked Olivia Manning. “I wanted to prove I was still alive,” says James....
...He was very much part of literary life in the 1920s, however, sniping at DH Lawrence, corresponding with TS Eliot, and enjoying a long-running feud with the Sitwells....
...; an uncomfortably canny, cold Lucian Freud (1949) – “that spiv turned out to be a nasty piece of work”, Epstein noted – and a magnificently unromantic portrayal, in plaster with a golden patina, of TS Eliot...
...The Roi des Belges is named after the boat captained by Joseph Conrad when he was in the Congo in 1890....
...Conrad have produced a brand new Asterix adventure that’s all but indistinguishable from the originals....
...We got plenty of the metaphysical poets; Eliots, both George and TS; scads of EM Forster and Joseph Conrad, but so much as mention the possibility of Dickens (with the exception of the mechanically polemical...
...Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Penelope Fitzgerald, Ivan Turgenev, George Eliot. Who would you most like to sit next to at a dinner party? John Donne....
...One book that shook me as a grown man was Joseph Conrad’s Victory. It was an astonishment. What books are currently on your bedside table?...
...That same year, in his poem “The Waste Land”, TS Eliot, who had been recuperating from a nervous breakdown in the Kent seaside town, wrote “On Margate sands/I can connect/Nothing with nothing”....
...Indeed, two of America’s most notorious corporate felons were born Canadian: WorldCom’s Bernie Ebbers and Hollinger’s Conrad Black....
...For those with a taste for fiction, there is Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, C.S. Forester or Patrick O’Brian....
...Mr Obama has so far enlisted the support of only two senators: Kent Conrad and Dick Durbin....
...Eliot, Conrad Aiken and Wallace Stevens, he is now little read and little remembered. The Last Puritan has been out of print for many years....
...Eliot put it in “Burnt Norton”, we are “distracted from distraction by distraction”, is where meditation and metaphysical poetry join forces....
...The trial of the fallen media mogul Conrad Black on racketeering and other charges began this week with a bold opening argument from the assistant US attorney in Chicago....
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