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"It is difficult to imagine a better single-author reference book for students than this jam-packed, authoritative work about Conrad."--Choice
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'Scholarly, ambitious and scrupulous'. This is how the TLS recently described the Oxford Reader's Companion Series. In September 2000, the book which pioneered the series, The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens came out in paperback. Now the Oxford Reader's Companions to Hardy, Trollope, Conrad, and George Eliot will follow on from that success. In this format these books are designed specifically to appeal to students of literature. Each contains a more comprehensive and accessible range of information than any other reference work on these writers. Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski had an astonishing life. 'Pole, Catholic, and nobleman' is how he described himself as at the age of 5. He was born in the Ukraine of Polish parents and spent his childhood in exile. It was only after fifteen years at sea that he began writing in English, his third language and the one whose genius had, as he put it, 'adopted' him. Owen Knowles and Gene M. Moore, together with their team of distinguished Advisers and Contributors, have created a unique and authoritative reference work on all things Conradian. Over 400 entries cover Conrad's novels, stories, essays, and reviews; his friends, family, and associates; films and adaptations; ships and voyages; places associated with his life and works; his influences and sources; his reputation and critical approaches to his work; historical contexts to his life. Entries include: Conrad's life: health, Polish inheritance, the sea, ships and voyages People: Borys Conrad, Apollo and Ewa Korzeniowski, J. M. Barrie, Stephen Crane, Stefan Zeromski Places: America, Bangkok, Berdyczow, Congo, Cracow, Marseilles Novels: Almayer's Folly, Lord Jim, Nostromo Stories, essays, and reviews: 'An Anarchist', 'Typhoon', 'Autocracy and War', 'Legends', 'Tales of the Sea' Influences and Sources: James Brooke, Alighieri Dante, Charles Dickens, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emile Zola Characters: Almayer family, Mr Jones, Jim, Captain Mitchell, Nostromo, the Professor, Edith Travers Reputation: biographies, films, influences on other writers, portraits and other images, translations Historical context: First World War, Polish question, women's suffrage movement In addition to the A-Z entries the Companion offers extra material: a classified contents list with headwords grouped in thematic batches, Conrad's family tree, a useful chronology spanning Conrad's life, maps showing Conrad's travels, an index of references to Conrad's works, and an alphabetical list of frequently cited texts.
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This thesis is commonly associated with Thomas C. Moser's influential study Joseph Conrad: Achievement and Decline (1957), although he was by no means the first to put forward the case that Conrad's later fiction, in the aftermath of his breakdown in 1910, is subject to a marked decline. Read the first page
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This thesis is commonly associated with Thomas C. Moser's influential study Joseph Conrad: Achievement and Decline (1957), although he was by no means the first to put forward the case that Conrad's later fiction, in the aftermath of his breakdown in 1910, is subject to a marked decline. Read the first page
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Conrad's writing has the reputation of being somewhat forbidding in some circles and I know academic writers on English Literature who have hardly any acquaintance with him. Of course Conrad was writing in his third language and writing books which he intended to be great literature at that; his style is therefore like no other. Those who are new to him (and devotees) will really benefit from a book like this which is helpful with plot summaries, cross references, biographical details and incidentals (did you know that a manuscript of a story Conrad had written was lost in the Titanic? He had an arrangement to sell manuscripts to a wealthy American collector). Like many works of this genre it is an excellent book to have to browse on its own, enabling one to pick up useful facts and information. It is written by a fine array of authorities on the author. If you are interested in Conrad or in European literary scene between 1880 and 1924 this will be a worthwhile and invaluable book to acquire. Highly recommended.
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