The Portable Conrad  : Penguin Classics - Joseph Conrad

The Portable Conrad

By: Joseph Conrad

Paperback | 31 January 2008 | Edition Number 1

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A great novelist of the sea, a poet of the tropics, a critic of empire and analyst of globalisation, a harbinger of the modern spy novel, an unparalleled observer of the moments in which people are stripped of their illusions - Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.

This revised edition of The Portable Conrad features the best known and most enduring of Conrad's works, including The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, and The Nigger of the Narcissus as well as shorter tales like Amy Forster and The Secret Sharer a selection of letters, and his observations on the sinking of the Titanic.

About the Author

Joseph Conrad was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1874 Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.
Industry Reviews
"This is the best one-volume selection of Conrad available. Michael Gorra's learned and acute introduction puts both Conrad, and Conrad criticism, in essential context." -James Wood

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