Lord Jim & Nostromo
$55.32
- Paperback
816 pages
- Release Date
15 December 1999
Summary
Selected by the Modern Library as two of the 100 best novels of all time
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN
COMMENTARY BY VIRGINIA WOOLF, HAROLD BLOOM, EDWARD SAID, F. R. LEAVIS, AND ROBERT PENN WARREN
“Never were Mr. Conrad’s felicity of phrase and charm of atmosphere more obvious… . A book of the rare literary quality of Lord Jim is something to receive with gratitude and joy.” –The New York Times
Originally published in 1900, Lord Jim is on…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375754890 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 037575489X |
| Author: | Joseph Conrad, Robert D. Kaplan |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 816 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 December 1999 |
| Weight: | 957g |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 140mm x 46mm |
| Series: | Modern Library (Paperback) |
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About The Author
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Ukraine, in 1857. After both of his parents died of tuberculosis, Conrad went to live with his uncle in Switzerland. After attending school in Krak w,he joined the French and then the British merchant marines, sailing to exotic destinations like the West Indies and the Congo, which would later become the backdrops for some of his fiction. In 1894 he settled down in England and began his literary career. In 1902 Conrad published his most famous work, Heart of Darkness, and continued to write until his death in 1924.
Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupe Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. Hewas amember of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy’s Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s”Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
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