{"product_id":"ivory-apes-and-peacocks-paperback","title":"Ivory Apes and Peacocks - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Huneker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 196\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9.69 x 7.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 11, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43426669953091,"sku":"9781515032694","price":13.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store7994.com\/products\/ivory-apes-and-peacocks-paperback","provider":"STORE 7994","version":"1.0","type":"link"}