Joseph Conrad

Notes on Life and Letters (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Letters part of this 1921 collection of short pieces by the author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim takes on the subjects Stephen Crane, Guy de Maupassant, Anatole France, Turgenev, and others. The second part, entitled Life, includes articles about war, autocracy, Poland, ocean liners, and the sinking of the Titanic as well as the subsequent investigation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411456105
• Artikelnr.: 50390284

Autorenporträt

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist, considered as one of the prominent novelists to write in the English language. He was born on 3 December 1857. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be considered a master prose stylist who guide a non-English sensibility into English literature. He was assigned British nationality in 1886 but always regarded himself a Pole. He enrolled the French Merchant Marine and began to work on British ships, learning English from his shipmates. He was made a master mariner and worked more than sixteen years before an event motivated him to try his hand at writing. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that represents trials of the human spirit in the middle of an unexpressive, transparent universe. During his lifetime Conrad was praised for the assets of his prose and his offerings of dangerous life at sea and in foreign places. His works include the novels Almayer's Folly (1895), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story 'Heart of Darkness ' (1902). He died in August 1924.

Foto: George Charles Beresford

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Abbreviations
Introduction
Notes on Life and Letters: Author's note
Part 1. Letters
Part 2. Life
The texts
Apparatus
Appendices
Notes.