Conrad and his world
Sherry, N. (1973). Conrad and his world. Thames and Hudson: London. ISBN 0-500-23171-0. 128 pp.
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VLIZ: Personal and Institutional Histories PER.243 [104869]
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Joseph Conrad's wide experience of men and the world provided him with a perfect foundation on which to build the characters and situations of his novels. It is this experience which Professor Sherry, a distinguished expert on the work of Conrad, brings so vividly to life in this brief biography with its unique collection of photographs. He shows Conrad the adventurer embarking on his maritime career at Marseilles, working his way up through the British Merchant Marine, journeying to the Far East and, most bitter experience of all, into the 'heart of darkness' of the Congo. But there is also the writer who, at the ending of his career at sea, had, despite the enthusiastic response of English men of letters such as Edward Garnett and Ford Madox Ford, a long struggle against public indifference, which he finally and triumphantly overcaame with his best-selling novel 'Chance'. |
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