Joseph Conrad

✍ Scribed by Normand Sherry

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 418
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Polish born, learnt English from scratch when he arrived in Britain. Writings include: Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Nostromo. Volume covers the period 1895 - 1993. Includes Conrad's responses to his critics.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
NOTE ON THE TEXT
Almayer’s Folly (1895)
1 Unsigned notice, Daily News, April 1895
2 Unsigned review, Scotsman, April 1895
3 Unsigned review, Daily Chronicle, May 1895
4 ARTHUR WAUGH, notice, Critic, May 1895
5 Unsigned review, World, May 1895
6 Unsigned review, Athenaeum, May 1895
7 H.G. WELLS, unsigned review, Saturday Review, June 1895
8 JAMES ASHCROFT NOBLE, review, Academy, June 1895
9 Unsigned review, Speaker, June 1895
10 Unsigned review, Guardian, July 1895
11 Unsigned review, Bookman, September 1895
12 Unsigned review, Literary News, September 1895
13 Unsigned review, Nation (U.S.A.), October 1895
14 Unsigned review, Spectator, October 1895
An Outcast of the Islands (1896)
15 Conrad on the literary profession, March 1896
16 Unsigned review, Daily Chronicle, March 1896
17 Extracts from notices in two Scottish papers, March 1896
18 JAMES PAYN, review, Illustrated London News, April 1896
19 Unsigned review, Daily News, April 1896
20 Unsigned review, National Observer, April 1896
21 Unsigned review, Sketch, May 1896
22 Unsigned article, Bookman, May 1896
23 H.G. WELLS, unsigned review, Saturday Review, May 1896
24 Unsigned review, Manchester Guardian, May 1896
25 Unsigned review, Spectator, May 1896
26 Unsigned review, Athenaeum, July 1896
27 Unsigned review, Nation (U.S.A.), April 1897
The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ (1897)
28 ARNOLD BENNETT on Conrad and Kipling, December 1897
29 Unsigned notice, Daily Mail, December 1897
30 W.L. COURTNEY, review, Daily Telegraph, December 1897
31 Unsigned review, Glasgow Herald, December 1897
32 Unsigned review, Daily Chronicle, December 1897
33 Unsigned review, Spectator, December 1897
34 I. ZANGWILL, unsigned review, Academy, January 1898
35 ARTHUR SYMONS on Kipling and Conrad, Saturday Review, January 1898
36 HAROLD FREDERIC, unsigned review, Saturday Review, February 1898
Tales of Unrest (1898)
37 Unsigned review, Daily Telegraph, April 1898
38 Unsigned review, Daily Mail, April 1898
39 EDWARD GARNETT, unsigned article, Academy, October 1898
40 Unsigned article, Academy, January 1899
Lord Jim (1900)
41 Unsigned review, Manchester Guardian, October 1900
42 W.L. COURTNEY, review, Daily Telegraph, November 1900
43 Unsigned review, Academy, November 1900
44 Unsigned notice, Sketch, November 1900
45 Unsigned review, Spectator, November 1900
46 Unsigned review, Speaker, November 1900
47 Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette, December 1900
48 Unsigned review, Daily News, December 1900
49 Unsigned review, Bookman, February 1901
50 Unsigned review, Critic (U.S.A.), May 1901
Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories (1902)
51 CONRAD on ‘Heart of Darkness’, 1898 and 1899
52 EDWARD GARNETT, unsigned review, Academy and Literature, December 1902
53 Unsigned review, Manchester Guardian, December 1902
54 Unsigned review, The Times Literary Supplement, December 1902
55 Unsigned review, Athenaeum, December 1902
56 GEORGE GISSING on Conrad, 1902
57 JOHN MASEFIELD, review, Speaker, January 1903
Typhoon, and other stories (1903)
58 Unsigned review, Morning Post, April 1903
59 Unsigned review, Daily Mail, April 1903
60 Unsigned review, Glasgow Evening News, April 1903
61 Unsigned notice, Academy, April 1903
62 Unsigned review, Academy, May 1903
63 A.T. QUILLER-COUCH, review, Bookman, June 1903
64 Unsigned review, Speaker, June 1903
Nostromo (1904)
65 CONRAD on writing Nostromo, 1903-17
66 ARNOLD BENNETT on Nostromo, 1912
67 CONRAD as a personality in modern literature, 1904
68 Unsigned review, The Times Literary Supplement, October 1904
69 Unsigned notice, Review of Reviews, November 1904
70 Unsigned notice, Black and White, November 1904
71 Unsigned review, Daily Telegraph, November 1904
72 C.D.O. BARRIE, review, British Weekly, November 1904
73 Unsigned review, Manchester Guardian, November 1904
74 EDWARD GARNETT, review, Speaker, November 1904
75 JOHN BUCHAN, unsigned review, Spectator, November 1904
76 Unsigned notice, Illustrated London News, November 1904
The Secret Agent (1907)
77 A.N. MONKHOUSE, review, Manchester Guardian, September 1907
78 Unsigned review, The Times Literary Supplement, September 1907
79 Unsigned review, Country Life, September 1907
80 ARNOLD BENNETT on The Secret Agent, 1907
81 EDWARD GARNETT, unsigned review, Nation, September 1907
82 Unsigned notice, Truth, October 1907
83 Unsigned review, Glasgow News, October 1907
84 Conrad’s reply to the Garnett review, October 1907
85 Unsigned notice, Star, October 1907
86 STEWART EDWARD WHITE, review, Bookman (U.S.A.), January 1908
87 Unsigned article, Edinburgh Review, April 1908
88 JOHN GALSWORTHY on Conrad, 1908
A Set of Six (1908)
89 ROBERT LYND, review, Daily News, August 1908
90 W.L.COURTNEY, review, Daily Telegraph, August 1908
91 Unsigned review, Country Life, August 1908
92 Conrad’s response to the reviews, August 1908
93 EDWARD GARNETT, unsigned review, Nation, August 1908
94 CONRAD on Garnett’s review in Nation, August 1908
95 EDWARD THOMAS, review, Bookman, October 1908
Under Western Eyes (1911)
96 Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette, October 1911
97 RICHARD CURLE, review, Manchester Guardian, October 1911
98 Unsigned review, Morning Post, October 1911
99 Unsigned review, Westminster Gazette, October 1911
100 Conrad’s defence of Under Western Eyes, October 1911
101 EDWARD GARNETT, unsigned review, Nation, October 1911
102 FORD MADOX HUEFFER, signed article, English Review, December 1911-March 1912
’Twixt Land and Sea (1912)
103 ROBERT LYND, review, Daily News, October 1912
104 JOHN MASEFIELD, review, Manchester Guardian, October 1912
105 Unsigned review, Standard, October 1912
106 Extract from Spectator, November 1912
Chance (1914)
107 CONRAD, letter to J. B. Pinker, June 1913
108 CONRAD on selling his work in America, July 1913
109 HENRY JAMES’s Criticism, 1914
110 ROBERT LYND, review, Daily News, January 1914
111 C.E. MONTAGUE, review, Manchester Guardian, January 1914
112 ARNOLD BENNETT’s opinion, 1914
113 EDWARD GARNETT, unsigned review, Nation, January 1914
114 Some opinions of Chance, 1914
115 Unsigned review, Glasgow News, February 1914
Victory (1915)
116 ROBERT LYND, review, Daily News, September 1915
117 Unsigned review, Scotsman, September 1915
118 WALTER DE LA MARE, unsigned review, The Times Literary Supplement, September 1915
119 WALTER DE LA MARE, review, Westminster Gazette, October 1915
120 Unsigned review, Nation, October 1915
121 Unsigned review, Atlantic Monthly, October 1915
122 GERALD GOULD, review, New Statesman, October 1915
123 Unsigned review, Glasgow Evening News, October 1915
124 WILLIAM LYON PHELPS on Victory, 1917
The Shadow-Line (1917)
125 Unsigned review, Nation, March 1917
126 Extract from an unsigned review, Morning Post, March 1917
127 Extract from a review, Bookman, June 1917
128 GERALD GOULD, review, New Statesman, March 1917
Arrow of Gold (1919)
129 Extract from a review, New Republic, May 1919
130 Unsigned review, Morning Post, August 1919
131 WALTER DE LA MARE, unsigned review, The Times Literary Supplement, August 1919
132 Unsigned review, New Statesman, August 1919
133 W.L. COURTNEY on Conrad’s admirers and detractors, August 1919
134 Unsigned review, Nation, September 1919
The Rescue (1920)
135 CONRAD on completing The Rescue, 1919
136 Unsigned review, Morning Post, June 1920
137 VIRGINIA WOOLF, unsigned review, The Times Literary Supplement, July 1920
138 Unsigned review, Punch, July 1920
139 Unsigned review, Nation, July 1920
140 W. DOUGLAS NEWTON, review, Sketch, July 1920
141 Unsigned review, London Mercury, August 1920
142 E.M. FORSTER’s criticism of Conrad, 1920
The Rover (1923)
143 Unsigned review, Manchester Guardian, December 1923
144 FREDERIC F. VAN DE WATER, review, New York Tribune, December 1923
145 Unsigned review, The Times Literary Supplement, December 1923
146 Unsigned review, Glasgow Evening News, December 1923
147 RAYMOND MORTIMER, review, New Statesman, December 1923
148 CONRAD, letter to John Galsworthy, February 1924
149 DESMOND MACCARTHY on the quality of The Rover, 1931
Suspense (1925)
150 CONRAD on the reception of The Rover and Suspense, February 1924
151 J. C. SQUIRE on the death of Conrad, London Mercury, September 1924
152 P.C. KENNEDY, review, New Statesman, September 1925
153 LEONARD WOOLF, review, Nation and Athenaeum, October 1925
154 GARNETT’s answer to Kennedy’s review, 1925
155 Unsigned review, Spectator, October 1925
156 MILTON WALDMAN, review, London Mercury, November 1925
157 W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM on Conrad’s Bornean novels, 1933
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