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MOBILE, Alabama-- A sixth-floor corner condo overlooking the Gulf, long white sheers billowing in a delightfully cool sea breeze, and a volume of Conrad open on my lap provided the perfect elements ...

Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard - Joseph Conrad - Joseph Conrad, who knew the human nature inside out, telling the story of Nostromo and portraying his personages is ironic and even slightly derisive ...

Polish writer Joseph Conrad's seventh novel solved a severe case of writer's block: "After finishing the last story of the Typhoon volume, it seemed somehow that there was nothing more in the world to ...

THE work and personality of Joseph Conrad have been approached by several routes, each holding a degree of difficulty as if the great writer was a mountain to be conquered or a sea to be successfully ...

In this new series on famous unproduced screenplays, Don Groves looks at doomed efforts to film Joseph Conrad’s novel Nostromo. It had the backing of Warner Bros., a superstar producer in Steven ...