Book description
The volume includes: 'Youth'; 'The Secret Sharer'; 'The Lagoon'; 'An
Outpost of Progress'; 'Il Conde'; 'The Duel'. The intention is a range
of settings - we move from the sea to the colonial world, the Far East
and Africa to England and then the Continent.
Joseph Conrad was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under
Tsarist autocracy. In 1874 Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he
served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in
1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality. Eight
years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing
his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year
he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern
classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo,
The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to
write until his death in 1924.
Gail Fraser, author of Interweaving Patterns in the Works of
Joseph Conrad (1988), has also written on Conrad's short fiction
for The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (1996) and
Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies.
Allan Simmons is Reader in English Literature at St Mary's College.
He is the author of Joseph Conrad (2006) for Palgrave.
J. H. Stape is the author of The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
(1996) and Conrad's Notes on Life and Letters (2004).
