Doctor Sleep Stephen King Scribner Release Date: September 24, 2013 ISBN 978-1-4767-2765-3 Another encore review of one of our favorite horror novels! Happy Halloween! I think I’ve said a number of times that horror stories simply aren’t my genre of choice, in books or movies, or what have you. I’m […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.