Conrad in Quest of His Youth: An Extravagance of Temperament
- ISBN-10
- 1982001445
- ISBN-13
- 9781982001445
- Pages
- 218
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-12-24
- Author
- Leonard Merrick
Description
"Takes firm hold of the reader from the beginning and holds him to the end." -The New York Times "No theme could be more irresistible - the sentimental journey of a man in the middle years after the fresh impulses and sheer wonder of his youth." -Review of Reviews and World's Work "Of my own free will nothing would induce me to give away the story of 'Conrad in Quest of His Youth' to those who are about to read it for the first time. I have just reread it and it is as fresh as yesterday's shower....There are a hundred surprises in 'Conrad.'" -Sir James Barrie, creator of Peter Pan "A master of form....It is inherent in his action, keeps us continuously and expectantly in motion, with never a pause or a hiatus....Expresses the hopelessness of middle age's yearning for past days and their irrecoverable zest. Strange how envious and apologetic the early forties are in the presence of the early twenties - as if the lesser age were the real possessor of the earth, and the greater a mere lingering encumbrance! " -The Review "Mr. Merrick's latest book is an achievement." -The World "This is a book on which the author and the reading public are to be congratulated....The characters are all admirably drawn, while the situations are handled with skill and a dramatic sense." -British Weekly "Unusually good writing....Mr. Leonard Merrick has startlingly realistic power." -The Manchester Guardian "Mr. Leonard Merrick is one of the most promising of our younger writers." -The Tatler "We have found Mr. Merrick bright and excellent company in this very modern story....True comedy." -The Athenaeum "To catch the spirit of Mr. Merrick at his best, one may go to 'Conrad in Quest of His Youth,' one of the most enthralling novels of the quarter century." -Philadelphia Record "It has humor and gaiety and truth, distinction, cleverness and a wonderfully alluring quality that makes one read it again and again, and always with fresh satisfaction." -New York Morning Telegraph "This is the take of a man of sentiment's attempt to go back to the days of his youth." -The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record "Determine to 'hang the almanac's cheat and the catalog's 'spite,' Conrad, hero of Mr. Merrick's story, returns to the scenes of his youth after years of absence, and hopelessly attempts to reconstitute the days of his youth. In Paris, in England by the sea where he gathers together his playfellows of the generation before, on the Riviera, and in London he was not shrewd enough to see that the loss of zest, sparkle and buoyancy from life left a flatness due to vanishing youth rather than to an imagined change in the people and settings. It is only when he gives up his sentimental journeys and begins living in the present that he discovers through his love for a little maid that he is young once more." -Book Review Digest
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