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Tag Archives: Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad’s Singapore
In Conrad’s time the Post Office, the Harbour office, the offices of the ships chandlers and various shipping agents were situated along the harbourside with a view of the ships lined up in the Straits of Singapore. A rambling two-story … Continue reading
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Tagged ian burnet, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, pilgrim ship jeddah, riau islands, singapore, Singapore straits
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Book Review from the Joseph Conrad Society of America
The following is an extract from a book review in Joseph Conrad Today a publication of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. Ian Burnet’s book, published this year, is a very welcome addition to a complex area of Conrad’s life … Continue reading
Joseph Conrad’s EASTERN VOYAGES – Book Review by Mark Heyward
The title caught my eye immediately: Joseph Conrad’s Eastern Voyages, Tales of Singapore and an East Borneo River. The cover, with its image of sailing ships and steamships in Singapore whet my appetite for a bookish journey back to some … Continue reading
Joseph Conrad’s Eastern Voyages – SIGNALS Book Review
Suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still night – the first sigh of the East in my face … It was impalpable … Continue reading
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Tagged An Outcast of the Islands, eastern voyages, ian burnet, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, The Rescue, Youth
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Asian Review of Books – Joseph Conrad’s EASTERN VOYAGES
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is perhaps the most famous example of a multicultural writer in the history of British literature. His novels have been translated, serialized, made into movies, and taught at numerous schools and universities throughout the English-speaking world and … Continue reading
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Tagged almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, ian burnet, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Macassar, Tanjung Redeb, The Rescue, Vidar, Youth
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Where in East Borneo is the real location of Joseph Conrad’s fictional trading post of ‘Sambir’ and ‘Patusan’?
About half of everything Joseph Conrad ever wrote takes place in South-East Asia, six novels, plus more than a dozen short stories and novellas, which are all evocative of the exotic east. Although his love was for sailing ships and … Continue reading
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Tagged almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, eastern voyages, ian burnet, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Pantai, Patusan, Sambir
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Alfred Street Press
Alfred Street Press is the publishing arm of Ian Burnet Books and was established to publish the book Joseph Conrad’s EASTERN VOYAGES – Tales of Singapore and an East Borneo River. This book tells the story of Joseph Conrad’s life … Continue reading
Fact from Fiction – A Review of Conrad’s EASTERN VOYAGES
For many of us, Joseph Conrad is a famous English author known for such books as Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, on which the films of the same name are based. Those of us who live in Sydney may, … Continue reading
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Tagged Almayers Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Berau River, ianburnet, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Macassar, singapore, Tanjung Redeb, The Rescue, Vidar
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Joseph Conrad’s EASTERN VOYAGES – Tales of Singapore and an East Borneo river
The life of Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story written by somebody like Joseph Conrad. During the twenty years from the time that he left Poland in October 1874 until he signed off his … Continue reading
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Tagged Almayers Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Berau River, ian burnet, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Tanjung Redeb, The Rescue
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