In 2015, a San Diego rare book collector made literary headlines with the Christie’s auction of letters, photos and other memorabilia by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee. The sale coincided ...

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), the famous Polish-born author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and The Secret Agent, among many other novels and short stories, is not a writer usually associated with ...

I was browsing some books today and I came across Joseph Conrad's novel, Nostromo. I wish I could say that I'm a student of great literature, and that I immediately recognized the title as Conrad's ...

THE work of a writer may be said to resemble an iceberg. That part of it which is visible tempts us to explore the larger portion which remains obscure and hidden beneath the surface of the written ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. Getting into Conrad can be difficult. His subject matter (often foreign), settings ...

WHEN I was an undergraduate at Columbia I sometimes used to buy books at Scribner’s retail store, which was then on Fifth Avenue below Twenty-Second Street. A tall soil-spoken gentleman named Simpson ...