Bringing it home to Uncle Willie
Frank Kermode, 6 May 1982
Joseph Conrad: A Biography
by Roger Tennant.
Sheldon Press, 276 pp., £12.50, January 1982,0 85969 358 9 Show More
by Roger Tennant.
Sheldon Press, 276 pp., £12.50, January 1982,
Edward Garnett: A Life in Literature
by George Jefferson.
Cape, 350 pp., £12.50, April 1982,0 224 01488 9 Show More
by George Jefferson.
Cape, 350 pp., £12.50, April 1982,
The Edwardian Novelists
by John Batchelor.
Duckworth, 251 pp., £18, February 1982,0 7156 1109 7 Show More
by John Batchelor.
Duckworth, 251 pp., £18, February 1982,
The Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism
by Allon White.
Routledge, 190 pp., £12, August 1981,0 7100 0751 5 Show More
by Allon White.
Routledge, 190 pp., £12, August 1981,
“... preferred The Country House to The Man of Property, which is very hard to explain; he turned down Wells’s The Time Machine, which is less difficult, for he liked ‘Hogarthian truthfulness’ better than fantasy; and he wrote a respectful but dismissive report on Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist, saying it needed a lot of work. It was ‘too ... ”