Authors: 265
Books: 3,034
Poems & Short Stories: 3,123
Forum Members: 68,569
Forum Posts: 995,314
Teacher Accounts with student management and more.
Making friends?
From: Dealernews
Date: 19991001
Author:Hartfiel, Robin
keep a Joseph Conrad quotation on a faded yellow Post-it note dangling from the computer monitor. Conrad is the author of Heart Of Darkness (for those of you who weren't English majors forced to suffer through his collected works, Hollywood made this little ditty a bit more recognizable as Apocalypse Now) and a number of similarly depressing masterworks. He has the unique talent to tarnish the silver lining behind every dark cloud.
Suffering from an upside-down sales situation? IRS auditing your shop? That's nothing, read a Joseph Conrad tale to get really depressed! No matter how bad things ...
Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
Other Articles on Joseph Conrad
About Our Articles: We've partnered with Highbeam Research to provide these article excerpts for your research needs. However, due to copyright laws, we cannot publish the whole article. To view these articles in full length you'll need to use the link above to access the free trial at Highbeam.
- 1P3-45699942
| Art of Worldly Wisdom Daily In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest wrote 300 aphorisms on living life called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom." Join our newsletter below and read them all, one at a time. |
Sonnet-a-Day Newsletter Shakespeare wrote over 150 sonnets! Join our Sonnet-A-Day Newsletter and read them all, one at a time. |
