 This startling, unique, splendid book." Mr. TP O'CONNOR, MP "This Is a decidely powerful story of an uncommon type, and breaks fresh ground in fiction. ... All the leading characters in the book — Almayer, his wife, his daughter, and Dain, the daughter's...  Wild Life in Southern Seas - Page 366by Louis Becke - 1897 - 369 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry de Rosenbach Walker - History - 1897 - 366 pages
...characters in the book — Almayer, his wife, his daughter, and Dain, the daughter's native lover — ars well drawn, and the parting between father and daughter...passages in the book. The approach of a monsoon is most effect'vely described. . . . The name of Mr. Joseph Conrad is new to us, but it appears to us as if... | |
 | Emile Thomas - History - 1899 - 430 pages
..."This startling, unique, splendid book." Mr. T. I'. O'CONNOR, MP "This is a decidely powerful story ot an uncommon type, and breaks fresh ground in fiction....effectively described. . . . The name of Mr. Joseph Conr:id is new to us, but it appears to usaa U he might become the Kipling of the Malay Archipelago."... | |
 | Emile Thomas - History - 1899 - 428 pages
..."This startlIng, unique, splendid book." Mr. TP O'CONNOR, MP "This is a decidely powerful story ot an uncommon type, and breaks fresh ground in fiction....effect. There are, too, some admirably graphic passages 1n the book. The approach of a monsoon is most effectively described. . . . The name of Mr. Joseph... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - English fiction - 1899 - 458 pages
...characters in the book — Almayer, his wife, his daughter, and Dain, the daughter's native lover — arc well drawn, and the parting between father and daughter...effectively described. . , . The name of Mr. Joseph Conr.id is new to us, but it appears to ai a* if be might become the Kipling of the Malay Archipelago."—... | |
 | Albert Chevalier - Actors - 1902 - 404 pages
...type, and breaks fresh ground in fiction. ... All the leading characters in the book— Almayer, hit wife, his daughter, and Dain, the daughter's native...graphic passages In the book. The approach of a monsoon 1s most effectively described. . . . The name of Mr. Joseph Conrad is new to us, but it appears to... | |
 | Harry Furniss - Caricatures and cartoons - 1904 - 312 pages
...type, and breaks fresh ground in fiction. ... All the leadi'ng characters in the hook— Almayer, ha wife, his daughter, and Dain, the daughter's native...pathetic naturalness about it, unspoiled by straining alter clTcct. There are. too, some admirably graphic passages in the book. The approach of a monsoon... | |
 | Nora Chesson - 1907 - 348 pages
...type, and breaks fresh ground in fiction. ... All the leading characters in the book — Almayer. nil wife, his daughter, and Dain, the daughter's native...father and daughter has a pathetic naturalness about jt. unspoiled by straining after effect. There are, too, some admirably graphic passages in the book.... | |
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