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1903 The Books of my Childhood; 1904 A Glance at Two Books (LE) 1904 Anatole France I (NLL) 1904 Henry James (NLL) 1904 Letter to the Times about the North Sea Affair; 1904 One Day More, Dramatization of To-morrow; 1904 A Glance at Two Books (LE) 1904 Preface to Maupassant: Yvette (NLL) 1904–05 Autocracy and War (NLL) 1904–05 The Mirror of ...
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.
The first US edition was published by Dodd, Mead and Company, and actually preceded the English edition. [1]The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle [a] (sometimes subtitled A Tale of the Sea), first published in the United States as The Children of the Sea, is an 1897 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad.
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."
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 ...
Nostromo is set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, and more specifically in that country's Occidental Province and its port city of Sulaco. Though Costaguana is a fictional nation, its geography as described in the book resembles real-life Colombia.
The teen drama, which debuted in June 2022 and is based the book series of the same name, follows Belly Conklin as she navigates growing up — and figuring out her relationships with Conrad ...
A Personal Record is an autobiographical work (or "fragment of biography") by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912.. It has also been published under the titles A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences and Some Reminiscences.