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The Several Lives Of Joseph ConradStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionWhen he died in 1924, Virginia Woolf wrote of Joseph Conrad, 'Suddenly, our guest has left us...There was always an air of mystery around him.' Never quite an Englishman, Conrad is depicted in this authoritative new biography as a man who consistently reinvented himself, transforming fiction into life and, in turn, life into litererature.Having endured a difficult childhood in the politically repressive Austro-Hungarian empire Conrad took to the seas, first working as a sailor in Marseilles, before joining the British merchant navy and travelling to the Far East and the Congo. Promotion infoPublished 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. 20041109 |