Joseph Conrad

Gebundenes Buch

Victory

Beschreibung

3et in the Malay Archipelago, where Conrad spent much of his youth as an officer in the British Merchant Navy, VICTORY is a sombre yet brilliant study of good and evil in Conrad's mature manner.

Autor

Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine on 3 December 1857. His parents were Polish and had both died in exile by the time Conrad was eleven. His uncle then became his guardian and looked after him in Krakow until he was sixteen when he went to sea and sailed on French and British ships. He was made British citizen in 1886 and changed his name to Joseph Conrad. In 1889 Conrad visited the Congo and his experiences there inspired Heart of Darkness. In 1894 he published his first novel, Almayer's Folly and went on to write nineteen more as well as many short stories, essays and a memoir. In 1896 he married Jessie George and they later had two sons. Conrad died on 3 August 1924.

Foto: George Charles Beresford

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Produktdetails

• Everyman's Library CLASSICS
• Verlag: Everyman
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 136mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9781857151442
• ISBN-10: 1857151445
• Artikelnr.: 31284633