Notes On Life and Letters - Softcover

Conrad, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1410208435 ISBN 13: 9781410208439

Publisher: University Press of the Pacific, 2003

Synopsis

The first part, titled Letters, contains essays on such topics as Books, Henry James, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Anatole France, Turgenev, Stephen Crane, Tales of the Sea, An Observer in Malaya, The Life Beyond, and The Censor of Plays. The second part, title Life, includes such topics as Autocracy and War, The Crime of Partition, Note on the Polish Problem, Tradition, Confidence, Flight, Some Reflections on the Loss of the "Titanic," Protection of Ocean Liners, and A Friendly Place. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist best known in his own time as a writer of sea stories. He is now more admired as a novelist of moral exploration and a master of narrative technique - a major 20th century novelist.

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Review

"This volume--with its thoughtful and thorough essays, Notes, and Apparatus--constitutes an excellent casebook on the making of critical editions. More importantly, of course, it is a major contribution to Conrad scholarship and will undoubtedly become the authoritative foundation for further research and writing on this richly varied collection of the author's journalistic writings." - Wallace Watson, Duquesne University

Book Description

The twenty-six essays collected in Notes on Life and Letters (1921) offer a kaleidoscopic view of Joseph Conrad's literary views and interest in the events of his day, including the sinking of the Titanic disaster and First World War. This edition, first published in 2004, presents an authoritative text and extensive explanatory material.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1410208435
• ISBN 13: 9781410208439
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276