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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)
Neither the pathetic Almayer of A Personal Record nor the tragic Almayer of Almayer's Folly have much in common with the real Olmeijer. Conrad used the names of people he met, and occasionally their external appearances, in his writings only as aids in creating a fictional world from his reminiscences, books that he had read, and his own ...
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 ...
Joseph Conrad's Last Day was incorporated as the final chapter in Curle's The Last Twelve Years of Joseph Conrad (1928). [38] Rather than offering a comprehensive account of the final years of Conrad's life, the book sought to supplement what was already common knowledge about Conrad as a man, based primarily on personal recollections ...
Lauren Conrad found The One in husband William Tell, but their love story had to wait a decade before it began in 2012. “I met my husband when I was 16 and sitting on stage at one of his ...
Literary critic Laurence Graver reports that Conrad's opinion of the story improved when publisher Edward Garnett decided to collect the work in its entirety rather than serializing it. [6] In a measure of Conrad's ambivalence towards the work, he later wrote that "The Return" was "not a tale for puppy dogs nor for maids of thirteen.