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A Personal Record Paperback / softback
by Joseph Conrad
Paperback / softback
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A Personal Record is an autobiographical work (or ""fragment of biography"") by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912.It has also been published under the titles A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences and Some Reminiscences.Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author's life.[citation needed] It tells about his schooling in Russian Poland, his sailing in Marseille, the influence of his uncle Tadeusz Bobrowski, and the writing of Almayer's Folly.It provides a glimpse of how Conrad wished to be seen by his British public, as well as being an atmospheric work of art.[citation needed]The ""Familiar Preface"" Conrad wrote for it includes the often quoted lines:""Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills.
It rests notably, among others, on the idea of Fidelity.""Conrad wrote a new 'Author's Note' to A Personal Record for the Doubleday collected edition of his works (published in 1920) in which he discussed his friendship with the British colonial official and writer Hugh Clifford.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:106 pages
- Publisher:True Sign Publishing House
- Publication Date:16/02/2023
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- ISBN:9789355843586
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:106 pages
- Publisher:True Sign Publishing House
- Publication Date:16/02/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9789355843586