Category: Joseph Conrad

But in this pity, I need not add, there is no touch of sentimentality. No man could be less the romantic, blubbering over the sorrows of his own Werthers. No novelist could have smaller likeness to the brummagem emotion-squeezers of … Read the rest

“Under all his stories there ebbs and flows a kind of tempered melancholy, a sense of seeking and not finding….” I take the words from a little book on Joseph Conrad by Wilson Follett, privately printed, and now, I believe, … Read the rest

This fourth printing of “A Book of Prefaces” offers me temptation, as the third did, to revise the whole book, and particularly the chapters on Conrad, Dreiser and Huneker, all of whom have printed important new books since the text … Read the rest

[1] Joseph Conrad: A short study of his intellectual and emotional attitude toward his work and of the chief characteristics of his novels, by Wilson Follett; New York, Doubleday, Page & Co. (1915).

[2] The Advance of the English Novel. … Read the rest