the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Joseph Conrad : Victory

'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his books; but he didn’t send "Bealby" along, and I lost the list and didn’t get it.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : Chance

'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his books; but he didn’t send "Bealby" along, and I lost the list and didn’t get it.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

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