Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 498 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781410399427
Series Statement:
Dictionary of literary biography volume 390
Content:
Polish Prologue : A Son of Polish Patriots ; A Reading Boy ; An Affectionate Uncle, a Fateful Vision -- Sea Years : Marseilles and the Caribbean ; Learning English under the Red Ensign ; Becoming a Master Mariner ; Exploring Eastern Seas ; "A Holiday Task" ; Into the Congo and the Darkness ; Home, Recovery, Remembering ; Last Ships and First Book -- Beginning a New Life : On Writing a Novel ; Finishing Almayer's Folly and Beginning An Outcast of the Islands ; Almayer's Folly Reviews and Conrad's Responses ; Reviews of An Outcast of the Islands ; Marriage and Writing ; H. G. Wells, a Critic Who Became a Friend ; Writing a "Respectable Shrine" ; "Narcissus" Reviews and Conrad's Responses ; Henry James, "Cher Maître" ; Another Year of "Struggling Anxiety" ; Tales of Unrest and Critical Acclaim ; Stephen Crane, "Intensely Living and Transient" -- High Water : "Cher Ami," a Peculiar Friendship ; Pent Farm and "The Heart of Darkness" ; Writing Jim for Serialization ; The Reception of Lord Jim ; Collaboration with F. M. Hueffer ; A Last Book for Blackwood ; Responses to Youth: A Narrative, and Two Other Stories ; Reviews of Typhoon and Other Stories ; Working on "My Largest Canvas" ; The Reception of Nostromo ; Responses to The Mirror of the Sea ; Working on "Verloc" ; Responses to The Secret Agent ; Beginning "Razumov" ; Responses to A Set of Six ; Working with "the Devil Jogging Your Elbow" -- To the Very End : "Coming Back to the World" ; Responses to Under Western Eyes ; Responses to 'Twixt Land and Sea ; Chance: Breakthrough at Last ; Beginning the War Years: Within the Tides and Victory ; Crossing The Shadow-Line ; The First of Two: The Arrow of Gold ; Returning to The Rescue ; Maintaining a Reputation ; Reviews of The Rover ; Port after Stormie Seas ; An Unfinished Novel.
Content:
This volume covers the works, career, and life of Joseph Conrad
Content:
"Illustrated volume on the life, writing, reception, and reputation of British author Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) including a chronology and secondary bibliography"--
Note:
"A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book."
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"ISSN: 1096-8547"
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781410399243
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781410399243
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Joseph Conrad Farmington Hills, Mich : Gale, a Cengage Company, [2022]
Language:
English
URL:
Available via Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography
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