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Joseph Conrad : the three lives /

Examines Conrad's "three lives" as Pole, as sailor, and then as writer. -- Dust jacket.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karl, Frederick R. (Frederick Robert), 1927-2004
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924.
Novelists, English > 20th century > Biography.
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924 > Biographie.
Romanciers anglais > 20e siècle > Biographies.
Novelists, English.
English novelists > 20th Century > Biography.
Conrad, Joseph.
1900-1999
Biography.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • The Polish years : 1857-1874. Soundings
  • Birth
  • Surviving
  • Breaking away
  • The French interlude : 1874-1878. Bearings
  • On the edge
  • "Don Quixote"
  • The English mariner : 1878-1889. Sailing on English ships
  • The first test
  • Moving toward the Narcissus
  • The master mariner and the apprentice writer
  • In Leopold's Congo : 1889-1890. Embarking
  • Journey to the end of the night
  • The writer : 1891-1899. Limbo
  • Turning to shore
  • Toward the self
  • Marriage and rescue
  • Holding on
  • "Into the mouth of hell"
  • The Novelist : 1899-1904
  • The major career : 1899-1910. Racing into print
  • Pinker and Jim
  • Ford and romance
  • Nostromo
  • Nostromo's epigone
  • "The pit of Babel"
  • Sailing close
  • Burrowing in
  • The English review
  • "Dreams, hags, magic sleights"
  • Through Victory : 1911-1915. Enter John Quinn and André Gide
  • "I fear not death, but dying gives me pause"
  • Craft or courage, which?
  • Fortune, not wisdom, rules the life of man
  • Final things : 1916-1924. "This age is broken down, the earth outworn"
  • "A little dust, a ghost, a gossip's tale"
  • A dubious rescue
  • "Idle days breed wandering thoughts"
  • "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas".