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Authors: Joseph Conrad
ISBN-13: 9781171820222, ISBN-10: 1171820224
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Nabu Press
Date Published: September 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Joseph Conrad

Most readers know Joseph Conrad for creating Marlow's harrowing journey through the African Congo in Heart of Darkness. Conrad was adept at capturing the physical and cultural experiences he gleaned from 15 years at sea, but he also wrote political thrillers, essays, and plays based on his own short stories. His best works tend to be brief, but pack in a remarkable perspicacity about humanity's deepest faults.

Book Synopsis

Twenty-six essays offering a kaleidoscopic view of Conrad's literary views and interest in the events of his day.

	List of illustrations
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Chronology
	Abbreviations
	Introduction
	Notes on Life and Letters	1
	Author's Note	3
Pt. I	Letters	7
	Books	9
	Henry James: An Appreciation	15
	Alphonse Daudet	21
	Guy de Maupassant	25
	Anatole France: I. "Crainquebille"	30
	Anatole France: II. "L'Ile des Pingouins"	36
	Turgenev	40
	Stephen Crane: A Note without Dates	43
	Tales of the Sea	46
	An Observer in Malaya	50
	A Happy Wanderer	53
	The Life Beyond	56
	The Ascending Effort	60
	The Censor of Plays: An Appreciation	64
Pt. II	Life	69
	Autocracy and War	71
	The Crime of Partition	94
	A Note on the Polish Problem	108
	Poland Revisited	114
	First News	138
	"Well Done!"	142
	Tradition	153
	Confidence	159
	Flight	164
	Some Reflexions on the Loss of the Titanic	167
	Certain Aspects of the Admirable Inquiry into the Loss of the Titanic	179
	Protection of Ocean Liners	194
	A Friendly Place	202
	The Texts: An Essay	209
	Pamphlets	212
	Book Editions	215
	Copy-texts	224
	Emendation	226
	The 'Author's Note'	234
	The Essays	237
	The Cambridge Texts	307
	Apparatus	309
	Emendation and Variation	309
	Emendations of Accidentals	371
	End-of-line Word-division	382
App	Additional Points to the Joint Protectorate Note	383
App	The Loss of the Titanic	384
App	Correspondence about the Empress of Ireland	386
	Notes	391