Notes on Life and Letters

Notes on Life & Letters

AUTOCRACY AND WAR1905 THE CRIME OF PARTITION1919 A NOTE ON THE POLISH PROBLEM1916 POLAND REVISITED1915 FIRST NEWS1918 WELL DONE1918 TRADITION1918 CONFIDENCE1919 FLIGHT1917 SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC1912 CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE ADMIRABLE INQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC1912 PROTECTION OF OCEAN LINERS1914 A FRIENDLY PLACE I dont know whether I ought to offer an apology for this collection which has more to do with life than with letters. Its appeal is made to orderly minds. This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying up, which, from the nature of things, cannot be regarded as premature. The fact is that I wanted to do it myself because of a feeling that had nothing to do with the considerations of worthiness or unworthiness of the small (but unbroken) pieces collected within the covers of this volume. Of course it may be said that I might have taken up a broom and used it without saying anything about it. That, certainly, is one way of tidying up. But it would have been too much to have expected me to treat all this matter as removable rubbish. All those things had a place in my life. Whether any of them deserve to have been picked up and ranged on the shelfthis shelfI cannot say, and, frankly, I have not allowed my mind to dwell on the question. I was afraid of thinking myself into a mood that would hurt my feelings; for those pieces of writing, whatever may be the comment on their display, appertain to the character of the man. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 1143
Author: Conrad, Joseph
Release Date: Dec 1, 1997
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: J. M. Dent
Publication Date: 1921
Publisher Country: [S.l]