The Portable Conrad
$60.27
- Paperback
752 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2008
Summary
A collection of Conrad’s most enduring work, edited by Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Gorra
A great novelist of the sea, a poet of the tropics, a critic of empire and analyst of globalization, 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 C…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143105114 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143105116 |
| Author: | Joseph Conrad, Michael Gorra |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 752 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2008 |
| Weight: | 573g |
| Dimensions: | 40mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Critics Review
“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
“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
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nałęcz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1896 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. Today Conrad is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in English—his third language.
Michael Gorra is a professor of English at Smith College. His books include The Bells in Their Silence: Travels Through Germany and After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie. His book, Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (2012), was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography.
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