Conrad And His World
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Good.
Few literary figures cast as long a shadow as Joseph Conrad — the Polish-born mariner who reinvented himself as one of the greatest prose stylists in the English language. Norman Sherry's Conrad and His World presents an intimate and richly illustrated portrait of the man behind the masterworks, tracing the arc of Conrad's extraordinary life from his turbulent childhood in Russian-occupied Poland, through his years as a merchant seaman navigating the Congo and the Malay Archipelago, to his eventual emergence as the celebrated author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and Nostromo. Sherry — one of the foremost Conrad scholars of the twentieth century — illuminates the profound connections between the writer's lived experience and his fiction with authoritative precision. Drawing on letters, photographs, and biographical detail, this volume argues that Conrad's art cannot be separated from the restlessness, exile, and moral complexity that defined his existence. Compact yet revelatory, it leaves the reader wondering just how much of the darkness Conrad chronicled on the page he had already witnessed in the world.
Author: Norman Sherry
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Good.
Few literary figures cast as long a shadow as Joseph Conrad — the Polish-born mariner who reinvented himself as one of the greatest prose stylists in the English language. Norman Sherry's Conrad and His World presents an intimate and richly illustrated portrait of the man behind the masterworks, tracing the arc of Conrad's extraordinary life from his turbulent childhood in Russian-occupied Poland, through his years as a merchant seaman navigating the Congo and the Malay Archipelago, to his eventual emergence as the celebrated author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and Nostromo. Sherry — one of the foremost Conrad scholars of the twentieth century — illuminates the profound connections between the writer's lived experience and his fiction with authoritative precision. Drawing on letters, photographs, and biographical detail, this volume argues that Conrad's art cannot be separated from the restlessness, exile, and moral complexity that defined his existence. Compact yet revelatory, it leaves the reader wondering just how much of the darkness Conrad chronicled on the page he had already witnessed in the world.