1st Edition
The Sea Dreamer A Definitive Biography of Joseph Conrad
By Gérard Jean-Aubry
Copyright 1957
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
by
Routledge
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Of Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken has written: ‘There was something almost suggesting the vastness of a natural phenomenon. He transcended all the rules. There have been perhaps, greater novelists, but I believe that he was incomparably the greatest artist whoever wrote a novel.’
Originally published in 1957, the year of the centenary of Conrad’s birth, and although he was firmly established among... Read more
Foreword. 1. The Polish Cradle (1857-1874) 2. French Days (1874-1878) 3. Youth (1878-1883) 4. Landfalls and Departures (1883-1886) 5. Meeting Almayer (1887) 6. First Command (1888) 7. The Pearl of the Ocean (1888) 8. Heart of Darkness (1889-1890) 9. ‘Twixt Land and Sea (1891-1894) 10. Within the Tides (1894-1896) 11. The Weight of the Burden (1897-1904) 12. Under Western Eyes (1905-1914) 13. Poland Revisited (1914) 14. Last Days (1915-1924). Appendix. Bibliography.
Biography
Gérard Jean-Aubry
