Notes on Life & Letters - Joseph Conrad

Book the facts of a struggle which has the reward of its righteousness even on this earth—in victory a ...

Each study in this volume presents some idea, illustrated by a fact told without artifice, but with ...

Some converts have, indeed, earned immortality by their exquisite indiscretion. The most illustrious example of ...

after listening to some of his tales, remarked to her mother, “Wouldn’t it be lovely if what he says w ...

salutation of passing wayfarers: “And on you be peace! . . . You have chosen your ideal, and it is a g ...

institutions, and being human, they are not animal, and, therefore, they are spiritual. Thus, any man with ...

implies a spiritual destiny for individual human beings.” This means: Existence after Death—that is, Immort ...

weary. “I have attempted to tear asunder the veil you have hung to conceal from us the pain of life, ...

Judgment Day; a great voice, perhaps the voice of science itself, uttering the words: “There shall be no ...

Many a man has heard or read and believes that the earth goes round the sun; one small blob of mud ...

THE CENSOR OF PLAYS—AN APPRECIATION— 1907 A couple of years ago I was moved to write a one-act play—and ...

and conscientious servant—the artist. Only thus can the dignity of artistic servitude be preserved—not to spea ...

gentlemen. He may suffer from spells of imbecility like Clodius. He may . . . what might he no ...

monstrosity ornamented with Mr. Stiggins’s plug hat and cotton umbrella by its anxious grandmother—the State. Frank ...

PART II—LIFE AUTOCRACY AND WAR—1905 From the firing of the first shot on the banks of the Sha-ho, the fate ...

imagination, to which alone we can look for the ultimate triumph of concord and justice, remains strangely ...

French Revolution exploded like a bombshell. In its lurid blaze the insufficiency of Europe, the inferiorit ...

It seems that in both armies many men are driven beyond the bounds of sanity by the stress of moral and p ...

the consecrated custom of writers in such time as this—the time of a great war. More legitimate in vie ...

more than a year ago) or give up to Japan that jewel of her crown, Saghalien, together with s ...