Author: Stape, John
Title: The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
Description: New York, Pantheon, 2007. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. xxvii, (iii), 369, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; terra-cotta cloth and cream paper covered paper boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. 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. Near fine/very good.
Keywords: Joseph Conrad; Literary Criticism;
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Title: The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
Description: New York, Pantheon, 2007. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. xxvii, (iii), 369, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; terra-cotta cloth and cream paper covered paper boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. 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. Near fine/very good.
Keywords: Joseph Conrad; Literary Criticism;
Price: US$ 12.50 Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
- Book number: 17200
- Book number: 17200
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