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1921 The Book of Job, translation of a novel by Bruno Winaver; 1921 The First Thing I Remember (CDOUP) 1921 The Dover Patrol (LE) 1921 The Loss of the Dalgonar (LE) 1921–22 The Rover; 1922 A Hugh Walpole Anthology Introductory Note (CDOUP) 1922 Foreword to J G Sutherland: At Sea with Joseph Conrad (CDOUP) 1922 Outside Literature (LE) 1922 ...
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: [ˈjuzɛf tɛˈɔdɔr ˈkɔnrat kɔʐɛˈɲɔfskʲi] ⓘ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.
Conrad sends an expedition to South America, with disastrous effects due to unique diseases. This book is from the point of view of a new character Josip Sobieski. Josip is a young man enrolled with Conrad's "Explorer Corps" whose purpose is to explore new lands in order to find new materials for Conrad's modernization of Europe (mainly rubber).
In Notes on My Books, Conrad wrote of his "mixed feelings" about the initial reception of the book which had been published while Europe had been engaged in fighting World War I. [5] The initial reception of the work had considered it "a melodramatic, rather Victorian novel, representing Conrad's artistic decline."
The five books in the original series were published in reading order, and although they’re marketed to middle-grade readers they can also be enjoyed by teens and adults.
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar. [ 1 ] The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar , finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors ...
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Very shortly after publication in 1920, a book review came out in "The Sewanee Review" in which G.H.C. said that The Rescue is "deeply and sincerely imaginative", and "is Conrad at his best" [1] Also in 1920, The New York Times published an article on The Rescue, in which the 20-year delay from beginning to end of the novel is discussed. [2]