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but who win much larger audiences than do novelists whom the critics highly
newspaper offered 20 for the best condensation of a novel that many were then
reading. Carelessly he tried for the prize, and won it and was off to a running
start on a literary career. He accepted frankly the fact that multitudes who read
fiction “ Just to pass the time” regard novelty as the chief literary virtue, and for
well that at the height of his fame he was paid at the rate of two shillings for
every word. The resultant old wives tale (1908) portiraying the contrasting
destinies of two sisters, one of whom eloped and the other stayed at home, won
an instant and well-deserved success. His next work, Clayhanger (1910) was an
even better portrayal of five towns characters; but Hilda lessways was inferior,
and the light that Bennett had seen went out like a candle flame in these twain.
simpler name on becoming a British citizen, are of the kind called “few but
select” many of whom regard him as the most artistic of modern novelists.
Uncritical readers as puzzled by such high praise until they learn that, more than
any other story – teller’s , his work is largly a reflection of his own personality.
My task is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you
which is poles apart from realism. To compare his descriptions of the sea with
those of cooper, who also was a sailarman, is to note the interesting difference.
Conrad, in The Nigger of the Narcissus, looks- within to portray of effect of the
lonely sea on his characters Cooper, In The Red Rover, looks out with the ever
Nostromo, the Secret Agent (1907) and Under western Eyes (1911) and Heart of
Darkness(1902); Typhoon (1903) and The Shadow line (1917) Conrad’s earlier
novels, Almayer’s Folly And an Outcast of the Islands (1896). His later work
includes chance(1914), the first to bring him a big public; the rescue (1920). His
other works are a number of volumes of the short Stories and essays, including
Conrad co operated with Ford Madox Ford in the writing of two novels; The
first three valumes of his collected letters were published in 1983, 1986 and
1988.
George Bernard Shaw was a man of many qualities. He was not only a
drama tist but also a pamphleteer, critic, political thinker, orator and
philosopher, and an inspired Jester. During his active literary life of about 70
years he took part in the work of the Fabian Society, reviewed books, wrote
controversial pamphlets, served as art critic, popularised Ibsen, won the Nobel
prize for literature, went on a round the warld tour, collected a huge amount of
wealth, and was the most talked of person of his age. Show was himself a
paradox. Show also wrote as a critic of art literature, music and drama for
several magazines. He wrote for the world on the role of music in everyday life.
Essays, published in 1907, won him great game as a dramatic critic. He has an
long succession- The philanderer, Mrs. Warren’s profession, Arms and The
Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell, the Devil’s Disciple,
Joan, The Apple Cart, In good King Charles’ Golden Days, Buoyant Billios and
several others. For his great contribution to literature, in 1925 he was awarded
Mulk Raj Anand in one of the three great Indian novelists writing novels
in English, the other two bing Raja Rao and R.K.Narayan. He has to his credit
more than a dozen novels, about for score shart stories, and a number of essays
Untouchable in 1935. Anand was a prolific novelist. He was fully active upto
his last breath. He had produced fifteen novels After Untouchaple (1935), there
came coolie in 1936. In 1937, his two leaves and a Bud was published. Then
lament on the death of a master of arts was published in 1938, the village came
in 1939 and Across the Black waters in 1940. The sword and the Sickle 1942.
The Death of a Hero in 1963. His short stories deals with the theme of hunger,