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Conrad suffered throughout life from ill health, physical and mental. A newspaper review of a Conrad biography suggested that the book could have been subtitled Thirty Years of Debt, Gout, Depression and Angst. [76] In 1891 he was hospitalised for several months, suffering from gout, neuralgic pains in his right arm and recurrent attacks of ...
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 .
1908–09 A Personal Record; 1909 The Secret Sharer (TLS) 1909 The Silence of the Sea (CDOUP) 1910 A Happy Wanderer (NLL) 1910 The Life Beyond (NLL) 1910 The Ascending Effort (NLL) 1911 A Familiar Preface to A Personal Record; 1911 A Smile of Fortune (TLS) 1911 Prince Roman (TH) 1911 The Partner (WT) 1912 A Friendly Place for Sailors (NLL)
The barque Otago, captained by Conrad in 1888 and early 1889.. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; Berdychiv, Ukraine, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924, Bishopsbourne, Kent, England) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England.
Ford and Conrad's close work over the years also created a strong bond between the two, summarized in Ford's 1924 essay, "Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance", published in The English Review. The Nature of a Crime is likely influenced by major events from the life of Joseph Conrad, most notably his suicide attempt made at the age of 20. In ...
Last Essays is a volume of essays by Joseph Conrad, edited with an introduction by Richard Curle, and published posthumously in 1926 (London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons). The volume includes nineteen shorter pieces, mainly written by Conrad for various newspapers and magazines after the publication of Notes on Life and Letters in 1921.
During the last eight years of his life, Conrad wrote a number of critical essays, two plays, and four novels. Literary critic Laurence Graver reports that the novels” are generally admitted to be failures of a fatigued imagination: prolix, platitudinous and unconvincing...” [8] Abandoning short fiction after 1916, “Because of the Money” is one of his last works in this literary form.
Frederick Robert Karl (1927–2004) was a literary biographer, best known for his work on Joseph Conrad, a literary critic, and an editor. He spent 25 years teaching at City College of New York and then followed with 18 years at New York University .