Youth : a narrative ; Heart of darkness ; The end of the Tether / Joseph Conrad ; with a prefatory note by the author ; introduction by C.B. Cox ; notes by Norman Sherry.
By: Conrad, Joseph.
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BookSeries: Everyman's library.Publisher: London : Dent, 1974Edition: New ed.Description: xxv, 269 p.ISBN: 0460870467.Contained works: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Heart of darkness | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. End of the tether.Subject(s): Seafaring life in literature
| Sailors in literature | Colonies in literature | Congo River -- FictionDDC classification: 823.91 CON
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Store Item | 823.91 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00062458 |
Bibliography: p. [xix]-xxii.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Joseph Conrad is recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novelists.He was born Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in the Polish Ukraine. His father, a writer and translator, was from Polish nobility, but political activity against Russian oppression led to his exile. Conrad was orphaned at a young age and subsequently raised by his uncle.
At 17 he went to sea, an experience that shaped the bleak view of human nature which he expressed in his fiction. In such works as Lord Jim (1900), Youth (1902), and Nostromo (1904), Conrad depicts individuals thrust by circumstances beyond their control into moral and emotional dilemmas. His novel Heart of Darkness (1902), perhaps his best known and most influential work, narrates a literal journey to the center of the African jungle. This novel inspired the acclaimed motion picture Apocalypse Now.
After the publication of his first novel, Almayer's Folly (1895), Conrad gave up the sea. He produced thirteen novels, two volumes of memoirs, and twenty-eight short stories. He died on August 3, 1924, in England.
(Bowker Author Biography)