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Joseph Conrad: A Biography
Filled with provocative new assessments and new facts, this biography presents the contradictory, tormented life of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim , and one of the great figures of modern literature.
Book Details
- Publisher: Cooper Square Press
- Publish Date: Feb 9th, 2001
- Pages: 464
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 1.04in - 1.49lb
- EAN: 9780815411123
- Categories: • Literary Figures
About the Author
Jeffrey Meyers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the author of Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography, Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy, Hemingway: Life into Art, and Gary Cooper: An American Hero, (all available from Cooper Square Press), in addition to biographies of Humphrey Bogart, D. H. Lawrence, Edmund Wilson, and George Orwell. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Praise for this book
Shrewdly and sensitively written, and clearly inspired by a great admiration for its subject.
Meyers has looked hard at the raw materials of Conrad's life and has made the right connections. The resulting portrait is stunning and compelling.
Extensive research, both anecdotal and archival, has resulted in a wealth of new information on Conrad's seafaring career, his marriage, his friendship with Ford Maddox Ford-even on the real-life model for Kurtz. Meyers always has an eye to how life experience colors the fiction. This is highly recommended.
