Several Lives of Joseph Conrad

Title: Several Lives of Joseph Conrad Author: John Stape ISBN: 9781400044498 Publisher: Pantheon Published: 2008 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good H 1628465 Publisher Description: "The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad" is the first new biography in more than a decade of one of modern literature's most important writers--whose work remains widely read and acutely relevant eighty years after his death. In this authoritative, insightful book, we see Joseph Conrad as a man who consistently reinvented himself. Born in 1857 in Berdichev, Ukraine, he left home early and worked as a sailor out of Marseilles; traveled to the Far East and Africa with the British merchant navy; and, finally, in 1891, settled in England, beginning a precarious existence as an novelist and family man. Here is a Conrad for our moment: a man with a deep sense of otherness; a writer with mu