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...HG Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford were other guests....
...Conrad and TS Eliot to Zadie Smith and Zaha Hadid....
...Whereas in Joseph Conrad’s The Rover, after a lifetime of piracy on the eastern seas, the protagonist escaped to the nearby Giens Peninsula to find peace and a safe harbour to end his days....
...Philosopher Hannah Arendt called it the “most cruel form of rulership”; novelist Joseph Conrad, the killer of “anything that breathes the air of human endeavour”....
...Infusing this built environment is the history, whether glorious (Joseph Conrad recovered from maritime illness here) or notorious (“Hackney diamonds” is antiquated slang for broken glass, such as might...
...Every few years, I re-read Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. I have it on the go now. Jim is a sailor who has committed an act of dishonour on the high seas. But the narrator likes the lad....
...The idea of an older man looking back at his younger self’s work is the subject of the novella The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad, the seafaring author with whom Dylan is familiar (his portrait appeared on...
...And the young Deas, recently appointed fellow of All Souls College, Oxford university, was buzzing with the adventures he had read about in Joseph Conrad’s masterpiece Nostromo, set in the fictional South...
...In Joseph Conrad’s novel Nostromo (1904), Charles Gould, the British proprietor of a Latin American silver mine, becomes dangerously dependent on his treasure....
...It is what Joseph Conrad is getting at in The Secret Agent. But having been back for a year, I recognise it as the distinct achievement, even the point, of London....
...In 2021, she received the Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski literature prize. The same year, she founded the New York Literature Festival in the eastern Ukrainian town of New York, near Bakhmut....
...For instance, Matilda becomes a different person when she reads not the exotic adventures of Joseph Conrad but the domestic drama of Jane Austen....
...Then pianist Conrad Tao come onstage, and the casual atmosphere galvanised into something unforgettable....
...The Ondaatje items include some fine art, with a bronze bust of Joseph Conrad by Jacob Epstein (1924, est £5,000-£8,000) and, the catalogue’s cover lot, a rare portrait of “a young lady, a free person of...
...We listen as Binyavanga gives an eloquent, impassioned takedown of his bête noire, the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński, linking him to his fellow Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad, whom we are all desperate...
...The agreement with IMF staff “is based on the authorities’ plans to undertake bold and ambitious economic reforms,” said Allison Holland, the IMF mission chief to Zambia....
...May gives regular nods to Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent — it is the same bleak and shadowy London, the same sense of a group of revolutionaries at once deadly serious and comically hapless....
...Joseph Conrad’s novel was published in 1904, but has uncanny echoes of today in its battles over precious metals in a fractious postcolonial country....
...Think of Joseph Conrad, or James Joyce. Had the Polish seafarer and the itinerant Irishman never packed their suitcases, their novels could not have been written....
...And so, in the opening episode, she takes a detour to view a front door squeezed between two shopfronts on Allison Street, where her father, Joseph, grew up in a single room alongside his parents and four...
...Writer Joseph Conrad located the “heart of darkness” in the Belgian Congo, which later became the DRC. These days, westerners are more likely to see the Kremlin as the centre of moral turpitude....
...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...
...Ungoverned land, Joseph Conrad’s “blank spaces on the earth”, becomes intolerable. Of all China’s myriad feats, none would be as impressive as avoiding a quagmire of its own at some point....
...Raoul Peck’s sombre, four-part documentary takes its title from the order given by the insane Colonel Kurtz at the close of Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness; it’s also the title of Sven Lindqvist...
...What Nabokov called a “private tragedy”, Yiyun Li — who, like Joseph Conrad, has never written in her native tongue — calls a “private salvation”....
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