Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO T. FISHER UNWIN an unusually witty and light-hearted letter including a wry statement of his artistic credo written to his publisher from his honeymoon in Brittany ("...We only took possession of our own hut, hovel, cottage (or whatever other name it deserves) this very afternoon..."), noting with some pride the reviews of An Outcast of the Islands ("... According to the critical mind I am this and that, sublime or repulsive, Stevenson-like or Victor Hugo like - but no-body (I think) accused me of being commonplace...") and continuing in ironic terms about his intention to cater to popular taste and disregard his writerly instincts, followed by a summary of The Rescue with similarly ironic promises ("...Everybody or almost everybody in the tale shall be virtuous and beautiful and high minded. And even the wicked people shall wash their faces in rose water and brush their hair smoothly..."), 8 pages, 8vo, Ile-Grande, par Lannion, Cotes-du-Nord, France, 9 April 1896
Conrad, Joseph AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO T. FISHER UNWIN an unusually witty and light-hearted letter including a wry statement of his artistic credo written to his publisher from his honeymoon in Brittany ("...We only took possession of our own hut, hovel, cottage (or whatever other name it deserves) this very afternoon..."), noting with some pride the reviews of An Outcast of the Islands ("... According to the critical mind I am this and that, sublime or repulsive, Stevenson-like or Victor Hugo like - but no-body (I think) accused me of being commonplace...") and continuing in ironic terms about his intention to cater to popular taste and disregard his writerly instincts, followed by a summary of The Rescue with similarly ironic promises ("...Everybody or almost everybody in the tale shall be virtuous and beautiful and high minded. And even the wicked people shall wash their faces in rose water and brush their hair smoothly..."), 8 pages, 8vo, Ile-Grande, par Lannion, Cotes-du-Nord, France, 9 April 1896
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