Mr. Conrad has no ideas, but he has a point of view, a “world”; it can hardly be defined, but it pervades his work and is unmistakable. —T. S. Eliot, “Kipling Redivivus” He [James] had a mind so fine ...

Interpreting “The Secret Sharer” as an affirmation of gay identity, and then staging it as such, is certainly a valid take on ...

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), the famous Polish-born author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and The Secret Agent, among many other novels and short stories, is not a writer usually associated with ...

Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (1857-1925), otherwise known as Joseph Conrad, is best known for his short story Heart of Darkness, famously adapted by Francis Ford Coppola in Apocalypse Now. Though ...

A historic London home once occupied by the Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad—whose novella “Heart of Darkness” inspired the 1979 epic film “Apocalypse Now”—is on the market for £1.7 million (US$2.3 ...

Most people hate “Heart of Darkness” the first time they read it. I certainly did, as a high school senior more than 40 years ago, hated everything from its corkscrew sentences to the way its narrator ...

In 2015, a San Diego rare book collector made literary headlines with the Christie’s auction of letters, photos and other memorabilia by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee. The sale coincided ...

WHEN I was an undergraduate at Columbia I sometimes used to buy books at Scribner’s retail store, which was then on Fifth Avenue below Twenty-Second Street. A tall soil-spoken gentleman named Simpson ...

IF Mr. Joseph Conrad appears at first glimpse as a romancer, — and it is certain that to many readers he does, — the explanation is simply that he is a deeper realist than is commonly perceived. There ...