Almayer's folly / Joseph Conrad.
By: Conrad, Joseph.
Material type: BookSeries: Penguin twentieth-century classics.Publisher: London : Penguin, 1936Description: 167 p. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 0140180303.Subject(s): Adventure stories | Imperialism in literature | Colonies in literatureDDC classification: 823.91 CONItem 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 | 00062443 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Conrad's first novel is also the first part of his Malayan trilogy. Set in Borneo against an exotic and ruinous background, the book enacts the final, tragi-comic anguish of paternity of the trader Almayer, the colonialist idealist-dreamer and Conrad's first isolated man.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
- The texts: an essay, AlmayerG++s Folly
- The authorG++s note
- The Cambridge text
- Apparatus
- Rejected page of manuscript: Chapter 11
- Notes
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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)