Ivory Apes and Peacocks

By James Huneker

Book Overview

In these piping days when fiction plays the handmaid or prophet to various propaganda; when the majority of writers are trying to prove something, or acting as venders of some new-fangled social nostrums; when the insistent drums of the Great God Reclame are bruising human tympani, the figure of Joseph Conrad stands solitary among English novelists as the very ideal of a pure and disinterested artist. Amid the clamour of the market-place a book of his is a sea-shell which pressed to the ear echoes the far-away murmur of the sea; always the sea, either as rigid as a mirror under hard, blue skies or shuddering symphonically up some exotic beach. Conrad is a painter doubled by a psychologist; he is the psychologist of the sea-and that is his chief claim to originality, his Peak of Darien."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515032698
• ISBN13: 9781515032694
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.7"