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In this authoritative, insightful biography, we see the modernist master Joseph Conrad as a man who consistently reinvented himself. Born in 1857 in the Ukraine, he left home early and worked as a sailor, traveling to the Far East and Africa, and eventually settled in England, beginning a precarious existence as a novelist. John Stape describes a man with a deep sense of otherness, a writer who wrote in his third language and whose fiction became the cornerstone of modernism. With his exceptional understanding of Conrad, Stape succeeds in casting a new light on the life of a man who remains one of the greatest writers of his, and our, time.
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"Brilliantly concise and often witty. . . . Stape has pressed into one volume all the basic factual information anyone is likely to want to know about Conrad's life."
--The Washington Post Book World
--Tucson Citizen "Stape flushes out many facts we've not seen before. He sets various records straight, debunking myths about Conrad."
--The Weekly Standard "Stape's desire to strip out the myths and not to add more is to be admired. . . . There [are] wonderful glimpses of [Conrad] through the eyes of his friends."
--The Economist "Stape delivers a usefully compact . . . biography that draws on material not available to his predecessors."
--The Seattle Times
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Published to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is a brilliant and highly readable biography of a literary figure of world-wide reputation.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1400095867
- ISBN 13 9781400095865
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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