"The Cathedral" from Hugh Walpole. New Zealand-born English novelist (1884-1941).

"The Dark Forest" from Hugh Walpole. New Zealand-born English novelist (1884-1941).

"The Duchess of Wrexe" from Hugh Walpole. New Zealand-born English novelist (1884-1941).

"The Golden Scarecrow" from Hugh Walpole. New Zealand-born English novelist (1884-1941).

"The Prelude to Adventure" from Hugh Walpole. New Zealand-born English novelist (1884-1941).

"The Secret City" from Hugh Walpole. New Zealand-born English novelist (1884-1941).

"The Story of Doctor Dolittle" from Hugh Walpole. New Zealand-born English novelist (1884-1941).

"The Wooden Horse" from Hugh Walpole. New Zealand-born English novelist (1884-1941).

"The Golden Scarecrow" from Hugh Walpole. New Zealand-born English novelist (1884-1941).

To any reader of the books of Joseph Conrad it must be at once plain that his immediate experiences and impressions of life have gone very directly to the making of his art. It may happen often enough that an author's artistic life is of no importance to the critic and that his dealing with it is merely a personal impertinence and curiosity, but with the life of Joseph Conrad the critic has something to do, because, again and again, this writer deliberately evokes the power of personal reminiscence, charging it with the burden of his philosophy and the creation of his characters. With the...