Notes on Life and Letters


Leído por Peter Dann

Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conrad reminiscent, Conrad controversial", but never Conrad "with his boots off". He is particularly passionate when writing on Russian autocracy, on Poland's under-appreciated past and its hopes for the future, and on the self-serving blather of promoters loudly proclaiming that the sinking of the Titanic held no lessons for anyone but that the vessel should have had fewer lifeboats, and that her captain should have aimed to strike any iceberg head on. There are quieter, more tender recollections here too, including Conrad's appreciation of Stephen Crane, whom Conrad knew personally and liked very much, and a moving account of his return to Poland after a long absence at the very moment the Great War was breaking out. (Summary by Peter Dann) (8 hr 13 min)

Capítulos

Author's Note 7:22 Leído por Peter Dann
Books — 1905 14:30 Leído por Peter Dann
Henry James — An Appreciation — 1905 17:14 Leído por Peter Dann
Alphonse Daudet — 1905 9:50 Leído por Peter Dann
Guy de Maupassant — 1904 14:02 Leído por Peter Dann
Anatole France — 1904 25:06 Leído por Peter Dann
Turgenev — 1917 6:57 Leído por Peter Dann
Stephen Crane — A Note Without Dates — 1919 6:26 Leído por Peter Dann
Tales of the Sea — 1898 8:38 Leído por Peter Dann
An Observer In Malaya — 1898 5:45 Leído por Peter Dann
A Happy Wanderer — 1910 8:15 Leído por Peter Dann
The Life Beyond — 1910 8:50 Leído por Peter Dann
The Ascending Effort — 1910 8:44 Leído por Peter Dann
The Censor of Plays — An Appreciation — 1907 9:57 Leído por Peter Dann
Autocracy and War — 1905 1:02:51 Leído por Peter Dann
The Crime of Partition — 1919 36:23 Leído por Peter Dann
A Note on the Polish Problem — 1916 12:49 Leído por Peter Dann
Poland Revisited — 1915 1:03:38 Leído por Peter Dann
First News — 1918 9:34 Leído por Peter Dann
Well Done — 1918 29:08 Leído por Peter Dann
Tradition — 1918 13:59 Leído por Peter Dann
Confidence — 1919 13:01 Leído por Peter Dann
Flight — 1917 6:51 Leído por Peter Dann
Some Reflections on the Loss of the Titanic — 1912 30:33 Leído por Peter Dann
Certain Aspects of the Admirable Inquiry into the Loss of the Titanic — 1912 37:18 Leído por Peter Dann
Protection of Ocean Liners — 1914 20:09 Leído por Peter Dann
A Friendly Place — 1914 5:49 Leído por Peter Dann