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id: 19355
title: A Book of Prefaces
author: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
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  on Conrad, Dreiser and Huneker, all of whom have printed important new of the Conrad books continued small and the author remained in very [11] Some English Story Tellers: A Book of the Younger Novelists; New [14] Joseph Conrad: A Study; New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914. manner, in "Jennie Gerhardt"; there came from Dreiser the news that he on beautiful letters.[17] And yet the man was a superb artist in works, view of life that got into "Sister Carrie," his first book, was not the a mere story, not a novel in the customary American meaning of the word; times out of ten, in estimating a new man in music or letters, he has finds the best proofs of the Puritan influence in American letters, for Puritans of New England," says Heard, in his book on the Russian church, Libraries, Dreiser''s books in American, 143-5 _n_.


id: 20150
title: Notes on My Books
author: Conrad, Joseph
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  far, we talk a little about the aim--the aim of art, which, like life that story marks the first appearance in the world of the man Marlow, The End of the Tether is a story of sea-life in a rather the pages of that story--a fair half of the book--are also the product rest like a true confession on matters of fact which to a friendly and charitable person may convey the inner truth of almost a life-time. in any sort of way, so that one remained faced by the fact of a man He was, however, a man who liked to talk with all sorts of people, and the story is also a fact, well-known at the time though it really in fact, the story of her life. the same time I was just as certain in my mind that "Youth," a story


id: 1143
title: Notes on Life & Letters
author: Conrad, Joseph
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  had come to an end too; yet work so simple and human, so independent of the way of true wisdom for men and States to take account of things as Man of the Sea, and wait half-doubting for the birth of a nation''s soul great change of sea life since my time was brought home to me. calmly: "General mobilisation, do you know?" We looked at her like men like to know at what time of history the English Merchant Service, the tradition of the sea, which made by the work of men has in its turn as a man who has lived on it for many years, at a time, too, when on one of the look-out men was stationed in the "eyes of the ship" was too who read sea stories know) that when a ship sinks from a leak like this, advantage of bulkheads comes in--for time is a great friend, a good


id: 49436
title: Joseph Conrad
author: Walpole, Hugh
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  These two novels were followed by a volume of short stories, _Tales of book that closed the first period of his work, _Lord Jim_. the finest short stories in the English language, work of reminiscence, in many ways the greatest of all Conrad''s works, but, for the moment, already said, this is Conrad''s happiest book--indeed, with the possible whole life and pageant of the sea; it is because Conrad holds all three Conrad''s attitude to the Sea herself, in this book, is one of lyrical As other men write of the woman they have loved, so does Conrad Here, as in _Lord Jim_, it is possible to feel that Conrad, Conrad''s second novel, _An Outcast of the Islands_: and again in the earlier novels and tales of Conrad, in _Almayer''s _Nostromo_ may be proved from any other work of Conrad''s. thing that Conrad has done for the English novel--he has brought the


