Notes on Life & Letters - Joseph Conrad

We are at liberty then to quarrel with Maupassant’s attitude towards our world in which, like the rest o ...

sentiment! And both sentiment and buffoonery could have been made very good too, in a way accessi ...

Maupassant’s renown is universal, but his popularity is restricted. It is not difficult to perceive why. ...

desire. His view of intellectual problems is perhaps more simple than their nature warrants; still a ...

ANATOLE FRANCE—1904 I.—“CRAINQUEBILLE” The latest volume of M. Anatole France purports, by the declaration of its titl ...

best hopes are irrealisable; that it is the almost incredible misfortune of mankind, but also its highest pri ...

truthful, he had no existence till M. Anatole France’s philosophic mind and human sympathy have called ...

street lamp at the edge of the pavement shining with the wet of a rainy autumn evening along the whole e ...

stronger than truth. Besides “Crainquebille” this volume contains sixteen other stories and sketches. To define ...

The quality of his art remains, as an inspiration, fascinating and inscrutable; but the proceedings of his thought ...

France’s adventures, these are well-known. They lie open to this prodigal world in the four volumes of ...

The explorer was St. Maël, a saint of Armorica. I had never heard of him before, but I believe now in ...

M. Anatole France is no mean theologian himself. He reports with great casuistical erudition the debates in ...

Smoke “to all time.” Turgenev’s creative activity covers about thirty years. Since it came to an end t ...

I began by calling him lucky, and he was, in a sense. But one ends by having some doubts. To be s ...

in the publishing firm of Mr. William Heinemann. One day Mr. Pawling said to me: “Stephen Crane has arrived in E ...

This achievement was curtailed by his early death. It was a great loss to his friends, but perhaps not ...

and the sea. And his passage on this earth was like that of a horseman riding swiftly in the dawn o ...

ever believing in their existence. His morality is honourable and conventional. There is cruelty in his fu ...

He knows the men and he knows the sea. His method may be often faulty, but his art is genuine. The trut ...