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Richard Curle
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Richard Curle : Shadows out of the Crowd
'In the meantime I thank you heartily for your more than in one way very interesting vol.["Shadows out of the Crowd"]. We shall have a talk about it when you come, with the corpus delicti there before us to refer to.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Richard Curle : Life is a Dream
'You don't mind if I suggest that you should take a glance at Curle's short stories "Life is a Dream"-- not all in the vol. but three of them. Read first "Blanca Palillos", then the "Remittance Man" and finish with the one called "A Memory". Each in its way has a distinct value [...]'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Richard Curle : The Echo of Voices
'I will talk to you at length about the stories when you are well enough to come down here for the weekend.[...]. The value of these tales relies in the "nuances" of colour of half light and in [an] almost evanescent tremor of emotions.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Manuscript: Unknown
Richard Curle : Wanderings
'Just a line to thank you for the book. As I turn the pages my consideration for you grows to the proportions of respect. There is a beauty of easy moving prose - charm of phrase — felicity of words which give the strongest possible impression of mastery of language [...].'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Richard Curle : Into the East: Notes on Burma and Malaya
'Best wishes for the book's career begun yesterday—wasn't it?'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Manuscript: Unknown
Richard Curle : Scandals of the Dole
'I was just about to write to you on the "Dole " articles. They are wonderfully the right thing: matter, tone, attitude, interest.[...] Jessie is lost in admiration.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Newspaper
Richard Curle [writing as 'John Blunt'] : I Say
'Today's "J[ohn] B[lunt]" is particularly good. [...] The last three "Blunts" were remarkably good.'