Patricia A. McKillip, on books:

 

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

– Patricia A. McKillip.

Recommended reading: Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (1899)

 

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad.
 
Mass Market Paperback
First published 1899.
Published by Penguin Books.

ISBN 13: 9780140431681
ISBN 10: 0140431683
ASIN: B001KTM47C
 
Author Joseph Conrad based this novella on his own personal experiences, during a voyage up the Congo River in 1890.
 
This novella was the inspiration for the movie Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
 
Description:
 
Written in the last year of the nineteenth century, Heart of Darkness can be seen in many ways as the first twentieth-century novel.
 
Its climate of doubt and vagueness, its loss of moral confidence and its need for belief in the midst of spiritual wilderness, its exploration of the subconscious and its affirmation of individual freedom are all themes that were to have an influence on writers such as Orwell, Godling Céline, Borges and Eliot.
 
In Heart of Darkness Conrad unfolds the story of Marlow’s search for Mr Kurtz, the company agent whose ‘unlawful soul’ has been ‘beguiled beyond the bounds of permitted aspirations’ in his dealings with the natives of the Belgian Congo. Marlow’s adventure involves him in a crucial reappraisal of his own values. It is Kurtz, however, who attains to a vision of the inexpressible, terrifying reality of the heart in this extraordinary exploration of human savagery and despair.
 
Book cover image: The Steamer Stanley, by F. Hens.

Born on this day – Joseph Conrad:

Joseph Conrad

Writer

December 3, 1857 – August 3, 1924

Credits:

The Lingard Trilogy: Almayer's Folly (1895), An Outcast of the Islands (1896), The Idiots (1896); An Outpost of Progress (1897); Tales of Unrest (1898); Typhoon (1902); Youth, a Narrative (1902); The Tale (1919); The Rescue (1920); The Shifting of the Fire (1892); Lord Jim (1900); Romance (1900); The Inheritors (1901); Heart of Darkness (1902); Nostromo (1904); One Day More (1905); The Mirror of the Sea (1906); The Secret Agent (1907); The Point of Honor (aka The Duel) (1908); A Set of Six (1908); The Brute (1908); The Nature of Crime (1909); The Secret Sharer (1910); The Smile of Fortune (1911); Under Western Eyes (1911); 'Twixt Land and Sea (1912); A Personal Record (1912); Some Reminiscences (1912); Chance (1913); The Inn of the Two Witches (1913); Victory (1915); Within the Tides (1915); The Shadow Line (1917); The Arrow of Gold (1919); The Black Mate (1922); The Rover (1923); Laughing Anne and One Day More (1924); Tales of Hearsay (1925); Suspense (1925); Last Essays (1926); Letters: Joseph Conrad to Richard Curle (1928); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928); The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936); The Tremolino (1942); And the Darkness Falls (1946); Heart of Darkness / The Secret Sharer (1950); Tales of Land and Sea (1953); Twentieth Century Short Stories (1959); The Portable Conrad (1961); Conrad's Manifesto (1966); Points of View (1966); The 4th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1969); Great British Short Stories (1974); Kurt Singer's Gothic Horror Book (1974); A Little Night Reading (1974); A Century of Short Stories (1977); Congo Diary and Other Uncollected Pieces (1978); Favourite Spy Stories (1981); The World's Library of Best Books Volume One (1988); The Return (2004); Youth / Heart of Darkness / End of the Tether (2010); The Heart of Darkness & Other Stories (2018); An Outpost of Progress and Other Stories (2019); The End of the Tether: and Other Tales (2022); The Lagoon (2023).

Movies and television:

Almayer's Folly (2011); An Outpost of Progress (1982 / 2016); Apocalypse Now (1979); Apocalypse Oz (2006); Art Carney Special (1960); Au bout du rouleau (1973 / 2002); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950); Caracas (2024); Centre Play (1975); Cineficción Radio (2020); Con gli occhi dell'occidente (1979); Conrad (1994); Dangerous Paradise (1930); Dans une île perdue (1931); Der heimliche Teilhaber (1965); Devil's Paradise (1987); El corazón del bosque (1979); Face to Face (1952); Farornas paradis (1931); Film socialisme (2010); Folio (1957); Freya des sept îles (1973); Gabrielle (2005); Grossesse nerveuse (1993); Hadí plyn (2023); Heart of Darkness (1993 / 2019 / 2023 / 2024); Il Corsaro (1985); ITV Play of the Week (1959); ITV Television Playhouse (1960); Jej powrót (1975); Joseph Conrad's the Return (2014); La folie Almayer (1973); La ligne d'ombre (1973); La riva dei bruti (1931); L'agente segreto (1978); Laughing Anne (1953); Le roman du samedi (1981); Lone Wolf (2021); Lord Jim (1925 / 1965); Mashup at the Movies (2021); Nachricht aus Colebrook (1971); Naufragio (1978); Niebezpieczny raj (1931); Nostromo (1996–1997); Outcast of the Islands (1951); PaulWesNick (2019); Playhouse 90 (1958); Road Book (2021); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952–1956); Sabotage (1936); Schlitz Playhouse (1954); Secret Sharer (2014); Siesta Z (2017); Spec Ops: The Line (2012); Star Tonight (1955); Startime (1959); Sutra (1967); Swept from the Sea (1997); Tajný agent (2020); Teatr Polskiego Radia / Podcast Series (2004–2024); Teledrama (1957); Television Theater (1958–2017); The Duellists (1977); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950–1951); The Golden Twenties (1950); The Lost Valley (2017); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1963); The Rescue (1929); The Road to Romance (1927); The Rover (1967); The Secret Agent (1967 / 1975 / 1992 / 1996 / 2016); The Secret Sharer (1973); The Shadow Line (1976); The Silver Treasure (1926); The Young One (2016); Tropennächte (1931); Un reietto delle isole (1980); Under Western Eyes (1936 / 1962 / 1975); Victory (1919 / 1940 / 1945 / 1996); Windigo (1994).

Born on this day – Roger Richebé:

Roger Richebé

Director

Writer

Producer

December 3, 1897 – July 10, 1989

Credits:

American Love (1931); Angels of Sin (1943); Baby's Laxative (1931); Clara de Montargis (1951); Crimson Dynasty (1935); Der Zarewitsch (1954); Der Zarewitsch (1954); Domino (1943); Élisa (1957); Fanny (1932); Fantômas (1932); Forfaiture (1937); Gibier de potence (1951); Girl on the Third Floor (1955); Hommage à Raimu (1976); J'ai quelque chose à vous dire (1931); J'ai une idée (1934); Jean de la Lune (1949); La donna di una notte (1931); La femme d'une nuit (1930); La fugue de Monsieur Perle (1952); La grande Maguet (1947); La peau d'un homme (1951); La tradition de minuit (1939); L'amant de Madame Vidal (1936); Le collier (1931); Le fantôme (1936); Le mort en fuite (1936); Le salaire du péché (1956); Les amants de minuit (1953); Les J3 (1946); Les quatre jambes (1931); L'habit vert (1937); L'homme qui assassina (1931); Madame Sans-Gêne (1941); Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931); Marked Girls (1938); Midnight in Paris (1942); Minuit... place Pigalle (1934); Monseigneur (1949); Que les hommes sont bêtes (1957); Romance à trois (1942); The Battle of Austerlitz (1960); The Bitch (1931); The Death Agony of the Eagles (1933); The Secret of Polichinelle (1936); The Story of the Fox (1937); Två kvinnor (1947); Un déjeuner de soleil (1937); Voyage sans espoir (1943).

Born on this day – Virginia Kellogg:

Virginia Kellogg

Writer

December 3, 1907 – April 8, 1981

Credits:

Caged (1950); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933); Meet the People (1944); Screaming Eagles (1956); Stolen Holiday (1937); The Road to Reno (1931); T-Men (1947); TV de Vanguarda (1953); We, the People (1950); White Heat (1949).

Born on this day – Marion Schilling:

Marion Schilling

Actress

December 3, 1910 – November 6, 2004

Credits:

A Man's Land (1932); A Parisian Romance (1932); A Shot in the Dark (1935); Beyond Victory (1931); Blazing Guns (1935); Captured in Chinatown (1935); Cavalcade of the West (1936); Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999); Curtain at Eight (1933); Easy to Get (1931); Elinor Norton (1934); Fighting to Live (1934); Forgotten Women (1931); Gigolettes (1932); Gun Play (1935); Gun Smoke (1935); I Used to Be in Pictures (2000); Idaho Kid (1936); I'll Name the Murderer (1936); Inside Information (1934); June First (1931); Lord Byron of Broadway (1930); Niagara Falls (1932); On Your Back (1930); Only Men Wanted (1932); Rio Rattler (1935); Romance Rides the Range (1936); Rule 'Em and Weep (1932); Screen Snapshots (1932); Shadow of the Law (1930); Shop Angel (1932); Society Fever (1935); Stone of Silver Creek (1935); Sundown Trail (1931); Take 'em and Shake 'em (1931); The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936); The Common Law (1931); The County Fair (1932); The Heart Punch (1932); The Keeper of the Bees (1935); The Red Rider (1934); The Swellhead (1930); The Westerner (1934); Thunder Over Texas (1934); Wise Girls (1929); Young Donovan's Kid (1931).

Born on this day – Nino Rota:

Nino Rota

Composer

Pianist

Conductor

December 3, 1911 – April 10, 1979

Born on this day – Len Lesser:

Len Lesser

Actor

December 3, 1922 – February 16, 2011

Born on this day – Sven Nykvist:

Sven Nykvist

Cinematographer

December 3, 1922 – September 20, 2006

Credits:

Nova (2001); Ljuset håller mig sällskap (2000); It All Came True (1998); Celebrity (1998); Private Confessions (1996); Lumière and Company (1995); Kristin Lavransdatter (1995); Something to Talk About (1995); Mixed Nuts (1994); Only You (1994); With Honors (1994); What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993); Sleepless in Seattle (1993); Chaplin (1992); The Ox (1991); Buster's Bedroom (1991); Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989); New York Stories (1989); Another Woman (1988); Ved vejen (1988); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988); The Sacrifice (1986); Nobody's Child (1986); Dream Lover (1986); Agnes of God (1985); After the Rehearsal (1984); Swann in Love (1984); La tragédie de Carmen (1983); Fanny and Alexander (1983); Star 80 (1983); Fanny and Alexander (1982); Cannery Row (1982); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981); Willie & Phil (1980); From the Life of the Marionettes (1980); Marmalade Revolution (1980); Starting Over (1979); Hurricane (1979); King of the Gypsies (1978); Autumn Sonata (1978); One and One (1978); Pretty Baby (1978); The Serpent's Egg (1977); De fördömda kvinnornas dans (1976); The Tenant (1976); Face to Face (1976); Black Moon (1975); Monismanien 1995 (1975); Nouvelles d'Henry James (1974); The Magic Flute (1975); The Terrorists (aka Ransom) (1974); Scenes from a Marriage (1974); The Dove (1974); Das blaue Hotel (1973); Kallelsen (1973): Scenes from a Marriage (1973); Cries & Whispers (1972); Siddhartha (1972); A Free Woman (1972); Lockfågeln (1971); The Last Run (1971); The Touch (1971); Karpfs Karriere (1971); One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970); First Love (1970); Fårö Document (1970); The Passion of Anna (1969); The Rite (1969); An-Magritt (1969); Shame (1968); Hour of the Wolf (1968); Bränt barn (1967); Roseanna (1967); Persona (1966); Transit (1965); Lianbron (1965); Loving Couples (1964); Klänningen (1964); To Love (1964); All These Women (1964); Prins hatt under jorden (1963); The Silence (1963); Liebe will gelernt sein (1963); Winter Light (1963); Schneewittchen und die sieben Gaukler (1962); The Magical World of Disney (1962); Africa and Schweitzer (1961); Lita på mej älskling (1961); Murder Party (1961); Through a Glass Darkly (1961); Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi (1961); Domaren (1960); A Matter of Morals (1960); Lampenfieber (1960); The Virgin Spring (1960); Får jag låna din fru? (1959); Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte (1959); Make Way for Lila (1958); Damen i svart (1958); Synnöve Solbakken (1957); Gäst i eget hus (1957); En drömmares vandring (1957); Den tappre soldaten Jönsson (1956); Flickan i frack (1956); Nattbarn (1956); Gorilla Safari (1956); Blånande hav (1956); Ett kungligt äventyr (1956); Sista ringen (1955); Älskling på vågen (1955); Den underbara lögnen (1955); Salka Valka (1954); Karin Månsdotter (1954); Storm över Tjurö (1954); Sawdust and Tinsel (1953); Vägen till Klockrike (1953); Barabbas (1953); Under södra korset (1952); När syrenerna blomma (1952); Rågens rike (1950); Loffe blir polis (1950); Bohus bataljon (1949); Lång-Lasse i Delsbo (1949); Sjösalavår (1949); Hin och smålänningen (1949); Maj på Malö (1947); Lata Lena och blåögda Per (1947); Där lägereldarna brinna (1946); Saltstänk och krutgubbar (1946); 13 stolar (1945); Barnen från Frostmofjället (1945); Gomorron Bill! (1945); I mörkaste Småland (1943); En Stockholmssilhuett (1943).

Born on this day – Jean-Luc Godard:

 

Jean-Luc Godard

Director

Writer

December 3, 1930 – September 13, 2022

Born on this day – Tony Mordente:

 

Tony Mordente

Mordente

Director

Dancer

Choreographer

Actor

December 3, 1935 – June 11, 2024

Credits:

3 Girls 3 (1977); 7th Heaven (1997–2003); American Masters (2009); Angie (1979–1980); Baker's Dozen (1982); Benson (1979–1980); Blood and Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019); Brothers and Sisters (1979); Burke's Law (1995); Busting Loose (1977); Combat! (1962); Coming of Age (1988); Cousins (1976); Curb Your Enthusiasm (2009); Day by Day (1989); Doc (1975–1976); Don't Call Me Mama Anymore (1973); Easy Street (1986–1987); Family Ties (1982–1983); Flatbush (1979); Fleeting Moments (2018); Flo (1981); Good Time Harry (1980); Goodtime Girls (1980); Hardcastle and McCormick (1983–1986); Hunter (1985–1991); I'm a Big Girl Now (1981); Jake and the Fatman (1987); Just Tell Me You Love Me (1978); Keep on Truckin' (1975); Love Boat: The Next Wave (1998–1999); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963); Love, Sidney (1981–1982); M*A*S*H (1978–1979); Matlock (1987–1990); Maude (1973–1976); Nobody's Perfect (1980); Nurse (1982); Phyllis (1976); Private Benjamin (1982–1983); Quincy, M.E. (1979); Rhoda (1975–1978); Riptide (1984–1986); Romance Theatre (1982–1983); Safe Harbor (1999); Shadow Chasers (1986); Stars in the House (2020); That Second Thing on ABC (1978); That's Dancing! (1985); That's Life (1968); The 27th Annual Tony Awards (1973); The Associates (1979–1980); The A-Team (1984–1986); The Brady Brides (1981); The Daydreamer (1966); The Greatest American Hero (1986); The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine (1974); The Jim Nabors Hour (1969-1970); The Jimmy Dean Show (1965–1966); The Longest Day (1962); The Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show (1972); The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004); The New Interns (1964); The New Lorenzo Music Show (1976); The Outer Limits (1964); The Practice (1976); The Rita Moreno Show (1978); The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1971–1972); The Tony Randall Show (1977–1978); True Blue (1990); Turnabout (1979); Valerie (1987); Walker, Texas Ranger (1993–1998); West Side Memories (2003); West Side Story (1961); We've Got Each Other (1977); Who's on Call? (1979); Young Hearts (1984).

Born on this day – Heather Menzies:

Heather Menzies

Actress

December 3, 1949 – December 24, 2017

On this day in movie history - Undertow (1949)

Undertow

directed by William Castle,

written by Arthur T. Horman and Lee Loeb,

based on a story by Arthur T. Horman,

was released in the United States on December 3, 1949.

Music by Milton Schwarzwald.

Cast:

Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Peggy Dow, Bruce Bennett, Gregg Martell, Robert Anderson, Dan Ferniel, Rock Hudson, Charles Sherlock, Anne P. Kramer, Robert Easton.

On this day in movie history - American Hustle (2013)

American Hustle

directed by David O. Russell,

written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell,

was released in the United States on December 3, 2013.

Music by Danny Elfman.

Cast:

Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis C.K., Jack Huston, Michael Peña, Shea Whigham, Alessandro Nivola, Elisabeth Röhm, Paul Herman, Saïd Taghmaoui, Matthew Russell, Thomas Matthews, Adrian Martinez, Anthony Zerbe, Colleen Camp, Steve Gagliastro, Christopher Tarjan, Zachariah Supka, Christy Scott Cashman, Simon Hamlin, Martie Barylick, Dawn Olivieri, Becki Dennis, Jay Giannone, Arthur Birnbaum, Rob DiNinni, Michael Fennimore, Jack Jones, Danny Corbo, Sonny Corbo, Bo Cleary, Greg Maxwell, Mickey O'Keefe, Erica McDermott, Alura Carbrey, Kayla Feeney, Shannon Halliday, Volieda Webb, Patsy Meck, Abby Lavin, Damien Di Paola, Paul Campbell, Jeff Avigian, Stacy Hock, Michael Trigg, Richard Heneks, Ted Zalewski, Elias Birnbaum, Armen Garo, Sal DiMino, Gary Craig, Barry Primus, Sonny Gordon, Deva Mahal, Dicky Eklund Jr., Sean Eklund, Charley Broderick, Richard Donelly, Gary Zahakos, Frank Geraci, Melson Alford, Melissa McMeekin, JJ Wright, Bob Taraschi.

On this day in music history - The album Home, by Michele McLaughlin (2021)

Home

by Michele McLaughlin

was released on December 3, 2021.