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“The Idiots”— Joseph Conrad
“The Idiots” by Joseph Conrad We were driving along the road from Treguier to Kervanda. We passed at a smart trot between the hedges topping an earth wall on each side of the road; then at the foot of...
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“The Return”— Joseph Conrad
“The Return” by Joseph Conrad The inner circle train from the City rushed impetuously out of a black hole and pulled up with a discordant, grinding racket in the smirched twilight of a West-End...
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“A Happy Wanderer”— Joseph Conrad
“A Happy Wanderer” by Joseph Conrad Converts are interesting people. Most of us, if you will pardon me for betraying the universal secret, have, at some time or other, discovered in ourselves a...
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“An Outpost of Progress”— Joseph Conrad
“An Outpost of Progress” by Joseph Conrad I There were two white men in charge of the trading station. Kayerts, the chief, was short and fat; Carlier, the assistant, was tall, with a large head and a...
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“An Anarchist”— Joseph Conrad
“An Anarchist” by Joseph Conrad That year I spent the best two months of the dry season on one of the estates—in fact, on the principal cattle estate—of a famous meat-extract manufacturing company....
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Is it true that Nabokov called Hemingway and Conrad “writers of books for boys”?
From a 1964 Playboy interview. Republished in Strong Opinions. Tagged: Books, Ernest Hemingway, Interviews, Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov
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Almayer’s Folly — Rene Magritte
Almayer’s Folly, 1951 by René Magritte (1898-1967) “Kaspar! Makan!” The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour....
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Conrad/Hughes (Books acquired, 2 Aug. 2020)
So my son finished Douglas Adams’ A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on Tuesday night, giving me a nice excuse to swing by the used bookstore on Wednesday to pick up the next two entries in the...
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