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The Sea Dreamer - A Definitive Biography of Joseph Conrad (Paperback)
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The Sea Dreamer - A Definitive Biography of Joseph Conrad (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Conrad
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Of Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken has written: 'There was something
almost suggesting the vastness of a natural phenomenon. He
transcended all the rules. There have been perhaps, greater
novelists, but I believe that he was incomparably the greatest
artist whoever wrote a novel.' Originally published in 1957, the
year of the centenary of Conrad's birth, and although he was firmly
established among the world's great literary figures, little was
known about him generally, beyond the fact that he was himself once
a sailor, and that the language he handled with such mastery was
not the one to which he was born. This was described as the
definitive biography, written by one of Conrad's closest friends,
to whom the novelist willed his personal papers. It took many years
to prepare and the author travelled extensively in the lands that
Conrad knew and wrote about. He writes with clarity, compassion and
understanding of Conrad's childhood in Russia (where the father was
exiled for Polish nationalist activities); of how the youth of
fifteen, who had never seen the sea before, became a sailor; of how
at twenty-nine he became a British subject and master of his own
ship; of how in 1894 he became a novelist almost by accident, rose
rapidly to literary fame, found new friends and established himself
in literary history. This is a record of the strangest and most
enigmatic of lives, fascinating and authoritative at the same time.
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