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Joseph Conrad

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Lord Jim Summary

Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, first published in Eng-land in 1900, has long been acknowledged as a very difficult book for readers to understand, especially on the first read. However, those who have taken the time to understand the book acknowledge that the effort is worth it. Lord Jim, which Conrad began as a short sketch, grew into a novel that is widely recognized for its modernism—its tendency to buck the conventional narrative...

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Lord Jim: A Tale

5,795 words, approx. 20 pages

Lord Jim: A Tale by Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad was born in Russian-occupied Poland in 1857 to an aristocratic family involved in anti-Russian activities. For two decades (c. 1878 to 1895), he trav... Read more

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Lord Jim

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AUTHOR’S NOTE When this novel first appeared in book form a notion got about that I had been bolted away with.  Some reviewers maintained that the work starting as a short story had got bey... Read more

Joseph Conrad Biographies (7)

Joseph Conrad

1,834 words, approx. 7 pages

The Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was concerned with men under stress, deprived of the ordinary supports of civilized life and forced to confront the mystery of human individu... Read more

Joseph Conrad

6,280 words, approx. 21 pages

Writing in his The Great Tradition, the respected critic F. R. Leavis noted that Joseph Conrad "is among the greatest novelists in the language--in any language." Indeed, language is at the very heart... Read more

Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad 's reputation as a literary figure of major proportions rests entirely on his fiction. In relation to this large canon his dramatic works are incidental, derivative, and slight in volume... Read more

Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to the more perpl... Read more

Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad's reputation as a major modern writer rests almost exclusively on his novels and short fiction. But even if his five volumes of occasional writings only infrequently achieve the high dis... Read more

Joseph Conrad

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The short fiction of Joseph Conrad is central to his literary achievement. Conrad wrote forty-three works of fiction, of which thirty-one are short, ranging from stories of a few pages to novellas of ... Read more

Joseph Conrad

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Biography EssayJoseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to ... Read more

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