Notes on Life and Letters


Gelesen von 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)

Kapitel

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