item: #1 of 4
          id: 1143
      author: Conrad, Joseph
       title: Notes on Life & Letters
        date: None
       words: 79680
      flesch: 68
     summary: If the flight of imaginative thought may be allowed to rise superior to many moralities current amongst mankind, a novelist who would think himself of a superior essence to other men would miss the first condition of his calling. In a world such as ours, so painful with all sorts of wonders, one would not exhaust oneself in barren marvelling over mere bindings, had not the fact, or rather the absence of the material fact, prominent in the case of other men whose writing counts, (for good or evil)--had it not been, I say, expressive of a direct truth spiritual and intellectual; an accident of--I suppose--the publishing business acquiring a symbolic meaning from its negative nature.
    keywords: able; absolute; absurd; accomplished; account; achievement; action; activity; admirable; admiration; advantage; adventure; ages; air; alive; ambitions; american; anatole; answer; anxious; argument; armed; army; art; artist; artistic; aspect; atmosphere; attitude; august; austria; author; authority; autocracy; aware; barren; beginning; belief; best; better; big; bismarck; black; blind; blood; blow; board; boats; body; book; bourne; boy; boys; breath; british; bulkheads; business; calling; captain; care; case; century; certain; change; character; characteristic; chief; children; choice; circumstances; city; claim; clear; close; cold; collision; coming; commercial; common; company; compassion; complete; conception; conditions; conduct; confidence; conscience; consciousness; consideration; conviction; corner; cost; country; courage; course; court; crainquebille; crane; creation; crime; crowd; daily; danger; dark; darkness; davits; day; days; dead; dear; death; deck; deep; desire; destiny; destruction; development; devotion; die; different; difficult; difficulties; dignity; direction; disaster; distant; distinguished; divided; door; doubt; duty; early; earth; east; effect; effective; effort; emotion; empire; end; engine; england; english; enormous; europe; european; evening; events; evil; exact; excellent; existence; experience; expression; extent; extraordinary; extreme; eyes; face; fact; faculty; fair; faith; faithful; false; far; fascination; fatal; fate; father; fear; feeling; feet; fender; fiction; fidelity; figure; fine; fit; flag; force; form; france; free; freedom; french; friend; future; general; genius; genuine; german; ghost; gift; globe; glory; gods; good; government; grave; great; greater; greatest; greatness; grey; guilt; half; hand; hard; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; henry; high; highest; historical; history; hold; home; honest; honour; hope; hotel; hour; house; human; humanity; idea; illusion; imaginative; immortal; importance; indignation; individual; influence; information; informed; ingenuity; inquiry; insight; insignificant; inspiration; inspired; instance; institutions; intellectual; intelligence; interesting; interests; james; japanese; journey; joy; judgment; justice; knowledge; known; large; late; latest; law; leave; legitimate; letters; life; light; like; likely; line; lips; literary; little; lives; living; logic; london; long; look; loss; lost; lot; love; man; mankind; manner; marine; mass; material; matter; maupassant; meaning; means; measure; memory; men; mental; merchant; mere; merit; miles; military; mind; minutes; modern; moment; monstrous; months; moral; morality; morrow; multitude; mysterious; narrow; national; nations; natural; nature; naval; navy; neant; near; necessary; necessity; need; new; north; note; novelist; novels; numbers; object; obscure; ocean; officer; old; open; opinion; opportunity; order; ordinary; organisation; outside; page; paper; particular; passage; passengers; passing; passions; past; people; perfect; personal; phantom; phrase; piece; pilot; place; play; poetry; point; poland; poles; polish; political; polonism; poor; popular; position; possible; power; powerful; precious; presence; present; pretty; pride; prince; principle; problem; profound; progress; prose; public; purpose; qualities; quality; quay; question; quiet; race; rate; readers; reading; ready; real; reality; reason; recognition; record; red; regard; regret; religion; reports; republic; respect; responsible; rest; revolution; risk; road; room; round; run; running; russia; safety; sailors; saving; saw; scheme; school; scientific; sea; seamanship; seamen; second; secret; self; sense; sentiment; service; set; shadow; share; ship; silence; simple; simplicity; sincerity; single; situation; size; sky; small; social; solemn; sort; soul; space; speaking; special; speech; spirit; spiritual; stands; state; statement; station; step; stories; strange; street; strength; strong; stupid; subject; subtle; success; suggestion; sun; superiority; supreme; surface; surrender; sympathy; tale; talent; talk; task; temperament; terms; things; thinking; thought; time; titanic; toil; touch; town; trade; tradition; tragic; travel; triumph; trouble; true; trust; truth; turgenev; turn; uncertain; understanding; union; united; universal; unsinkable; use; usual; vain; value; vanity; vast; victim; view; virtue; vision; vitality; voice; volume; want; war; wars; watch; water; way; weakness; weeks; western; whisper; white; wide; wife; wind; wisdom; wish; women; wonderful; words; work; world; worthy; writer; writing; wrong; years; young; youth
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: 19355
      author: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
       title: A Book of Prefaces
        date: None
       words: 61171
      flesch: 63
     summary: It is almost as if any change in his manner, any concession to what is usual and esteemed, any amelioration of his blind, relentless exercises of _force majeure_, were a physical impossibility. When his men combat, not nature, but other men, they carry over into the business the gigantic method of sailors battling with a tempest.
    keywords: absurd; account; acts; actual; adventure; aesthetic; agent; agnosticism; aim; almayer; american; ancient; animal; answer; anti; arnold; art; artist; artistic; arts; aspiration; assurance; astounding; atlantic; attack; attempt; attention; attitude; audience; author; authority; average; away; bad; balzac; battle; beauty; beethoven; beginning; bennett; best; better; bill; bit; blood; body; bohemian; book; booth; boston; brief; burden; business; calvinism; capacity; carrie; case; causes; celebrity; century; certain; chance; chapters; character; characteristic; cheap; chicago; chief; chopin; christian; cities; city; civilization; civilized; class; close; co.; college; combat; common; company; competent; complete; complex; comstock; comstockery; comstockian; concern; confession; conrad; consideration; content; conventional; country; course; court; cowperwood; craft; critical; criticism; critics; culture; curiosity; curious; current; darkness; day; days; dead; deal; death; deep; defence; desire; destiny; detail; difference; difficult; dignity; direction; discovery; disdain; distrust; doctrine; doubleday; doubt; downright; dozen; drama; dreiser; early; easy; edition; editor; effect; effort; emotion; end; endeavour; endless; england; english; enterprise; enthusiasm; essential; eternal; ethical; evening; events; evil; example; existence; experience; eyes; fabulous; fact; fair; falk; false; fantastic; far; father; fear; fed; feeling; fellow; fiction; field; figure; financier; fit; fogy; folly; forces; forgotten; form; forward; france; frank; free; french; fundamental; game; general; genius; genuine; george; gerhardt; german; getting; gigantic; girl; glad; god; gods; good; grand; great; greater; gusto; habit; half; hand; hardy; hauptmann; hawthorne; head; heart; henry; high; history; holiday; hollow; home; honest; hoosier; hope; house; howells; human; humour; huneker; huxley; ibsen; ideas; ignorant; imagination; imbecility; immoral; important; impossible; impression; impulse; incomprehensible; indiana; individual; influence; intellectual; intelligible; interest; irish; irony; issue; james; jennie; jim; john; joseph; joy; judge; kipling; knowledge; kurtz; lack; lane; language; large; later; law; laws; league; learning; length; letters; libraries; life; like; line; liszt; literary; literature; little; living; london; long; lord; love; magazine; main; majority; making; man; manner; manuscript; mark; mass; materials; matter; means; measure; men; mention; mere; method; middle; midst; mind; mob; modern; modest; moments; money; moore; moral; moralist; mother; motive; movement; mrs; music; musical; musician; mysterious; mystery; narrative; narrow; national; native; natural; nature; need; new; new york; newspapers; nietzsche; normal; norris; nostromo; note; notice; notion; novel; novelist; obscene; obscure; obvious; office; old; open; opinion; order; organization; original; outside; page; paris; particular; passion; paul; people; personal; petty; phelps; philadelphia; philistine; philistinism; philosophy; phrase; piano; picture; piece; pilsner; pious; place; plain; plays; poe; poet; poetry; point; political; politics; poor; popular; position; post; power; praise; prejudices; process; professional; professors; profound; prohibition; protest; public; publication; publisher; pure; puritan; puritanism; purpose; pursuit; quality; question; rate; read; readers; reading; real; reason; recognition; record; religion; religious; rep; representation; republic; rescue; respectable; result; revelation; review; revolt; richard; right; romance; romantic; run; save; scheme; school; sea; second; secret; self; sense; sentimentality; seq; series; set; sets; sex; shadow; shakespeare; shaw; shows; simple; single; sister; skill; small; society; sons; sort; soul; sound; special; speech; spirit; spiritual; stage; stands; statement; states; stories; story; strange; street; striving; strong; structure; struggle; study; stuff; stupid; stupidity; style; success; sunday; suppression; supreme; sure; sweet; swift; symphony; tale; talent; taste; tendency; terms; theodore; theory; thing; thinking; thinks; thomas; thought; time; titan; today; touch; tragedy; tragic; traveler; tricks; true; truth; turn; twain; type; typical; unable; understanding; unintelligent; united; usual; value; van; vast; vice; victory; vienna; view; village; visible; vivid; volume; vs.; wagner; walpole; war; way; weakness; western; wife; william; wilson; witla; women; wonder; words; work; world; worse; worth; writer; writing; years; york; young; youth; zola
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: 20150
      author: Conrad, Joseph
       title: Notes on My Books
        date: None
       words: 36628
      flesch: 69
     summary: Other men have found a lot of quite different things there and I have the comfortable conviction that what I took would not have been of much use to anybody else. They argued that no man could have been expected to talk all that time, and other men to listen so long.
    keywords: able; accent; action; actual; adventure; affairs; aim; air; almayer; american; appeal; appearance; art; artist; artistic; aspect; atmosphere; attempt; attitude; author; believe; best; better; book; business; captain; care; case; certain; change; character; choice; circumstances; claim; common; company; complete; conception; concerned; conrad; conscience; conscious; consciousness; conviction; course; criticism; darkness; days; deeper; definite; detachment; different; difficult; distant; doubt; early; earth; effect; emotions; end; events; existence; experience; eyes; face; fact; faculty; faith; falk; familiar; father; fear; feeling; fellow; figure; folly; force; form; friend; friendly; general; glad; good; great; ground; half; hand; hard; head; heart; help; heyst; history; hold; home; hope; human; idea; imagination; impression; instance; intention; interest; interesting; intimate; kind; know; knowledge; land; later; lay; left; letters; life; line; literary; little; lives; living; london; long; longer; look; lost; love; magazine; man; mankind; manner; matter; mean; memories; memory; men; mental; mere; mills; mind; mirror; moment; months; mood; moral; mysterious; natural; nature; necessity; need; new; nigger; nostromo; note; novel; occasion; old; open; order; origins; outcast; pages; paper; particular; passion; past; pen; people; period; personal; phrase; piece; pity; place; play; point; possession; possible; power; preface; present; proper; public; publication; purpose; reader; reading; reality; reason; record; reflection; regard; regret; remark; rescue; return; right; sea; second; secret; seen; self; sense; sentiment; shadow; ship; simple; sincerity; single; small; smile; sort; special; spirit; stand; state; statement; stories; story; strange; strong; subject; suggestion; sulaco; surroundings; sympathy; tale; talk; task; telling; temperament; thing; thinking; thought; time; title; tone; town; true; truth; typhoon; vanity; view; vision; voice; volume; want; war; way; western; willems; wisdom; women; wonder; words; work; world; worthy; writer; writing; years; young; youth
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: 49436
      author: Walpole, Hugh
       title: Joseph Conrad
        date: None
       words: 20729
      flesch: 69
     summary: The Secret Agent_, and receives its climax with the remarkable popularity of _Chance_ in 1914, and _Victory_ (1915). He has said that if _Almayer's Folly_ had been refused he would never have written again, but we may well believe that, let the fate of that book be what it might, the energy and surprise of his discovery of the sea must have been declared to the world.
    keywords: able; agent; almayer; anthony; artist; atmosphere; author; beauty; beginning; book; boy; browning; captain; case; certain; chance; characters; colour; company; confidence; conrad; conscious; contrast; creation; darkness; death; decoud; detail; determination; development; dostoievsky; doubleday; eager; earlier; early; edition; effect; end; england; english; eyes; facts; figures; final; find; fine; finest; flora; folly; force; form; freedom; french; gould; great; half; hands; head; heart; henry; high; history; house; human; imagination; important; impulse; influence; instance; instant; interest; ironic; ironical; islands; james; jim; joseph; joseph conrad; kind; land; later; life; like; lingard; literature; little; lives; long; lord; love; lyrical; marlowe; matter; mcwhirr; men; mirror; modern; moment; mother; mrs; narcissus; narration; nature; new; nigger; nostromo; novel; novelist; old; outcast; page; patna; perfect; period; philosophy; picture; pity; place; poet; possible; potential; powell; power; pursuit; qualities; question; rate; reader; realism; realistic; reality; reminiscences; romance; romantic; room; russian; scene; sea; second; secret; sense; set; ship; short; silver; simple; soul; space; spirit; stevenson; stories; story; strong; struggle; style; subjects; sulaco; swinnerton; tale; theme; thing; time; true; truth; typhoon; verloc; victory; vision; volume; way; western; woman; work; world; write; writing; years; young; youth; zest
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