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Escape with Joseph Conrad! The adaptation of Joseph Conrad's fiction on American old-time radio.

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20060322
Author:Hand, Richard J.

INTRODUCTION

Joseph Conrad has often been seen as one of the greatest literary stylists in English fiction with extraordinary skills of narrative, characterization, and irony. However, Conrad is also a creator of great stories. This is the reason that Conrad's work has had such an appeal in adaptation: the Maurice Tourneur film of Victory (1919) was the first of many adaptations of the 1915 novel; Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (1936, based on The Secret Agent) was ostensibly the only Conrad adaptation by a director whose oeuvre is distinctly "Conradian"; Francis Ford Coppola's ...

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