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Joseph Conrad

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This study traces the writer's personal and professional development, linking early Polish upbringing, long service at sea, and later English domestic stability to recurring themes and imagery. It offers close readings of major novels and stories, contrasting romance and realism, examining characterization, narrative technique, lyrical and philosophical registers, and recurring motifs of memory, duty, and moral ambiguity. Critical chapters consider the novelist's craft, poetic sensibility, and balance between adventure and introspection, and the volume concludes with a short bibliography and reference aids.





A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH CONRAD’S PRINCIPAL WRITINGS

[The date is given of the first edition of each hook. New edition signifies a change of format or transference to a different publisher.]

Almayer’s Folly. A Story of an Eastern River (Unwin). 1895. New editions. (Nash). 1904; (Unwin). 1909, 1914, 1915.

An Outcast of the Islands (Unwin). 1896, New edition, 1914.

The Nigger of the “Narcissus”: A Tale of the Sea (Heinemann). 1897. New edition, 1910.

Tales of Unrest (Unwin). 1898. New edition, 1909.

Lord Jim: A Tale (Blackwood). 1900. New edition, 1914.

The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story. By Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer (Heinemann). 1901.

Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories (Black wood). 1902.

Typhoon and Other Stories (Heinemann). 1903. New edition, 1912.

Romance: A Novel. By Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Hueffer (Smith, Elder). 1903. New edition (Aelson). 1909.

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Harder). 1904. The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions (Methuen). 1903. New editions, 1913, 1915. The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Methuen). 1907.

New edition, 1914.

A Set of Six: Tales (Methuen). 1908 Under Western Eyes (Methuen). 1911. New edition, 1915.

Some Reminiscences (Nash). 1912.

Twixt Land and Sea: Tales (Dent). 1912. New edition, 1914.

Chance: A Tale in Two Parts (Methuen). 1914. Within the Tides: Tales (Dent). 1915.

Victory: An Island Tale (Methuen). 1915.








AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY

Almayer’s Folly: A Story of an Eastern River (Macmillan). 1895. New editions, 1912; (Doubleday). 1911.

An Outcast of the Islands (Appleton). 1896. New edition (Doubleday). 1914.

Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle (Dodd, Mead). 1897. New edition, 1912. New edition under English title: “The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’” (Doubleday). 1914.

Tales of Unrest (Scribner). 1898.

Lord Jim (Doubleday) 1900. New edition, 1914.

The Inheritors. By Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer (McClure Co.). 1901.

Typhoon (Putman). 1902. New edition (Doubleday). 1914.

Youth, and two Other Stories (McClure Co. Afterwards transferred to Doubleday). 1903.

Falk: Amy Foster: Tomorrow [Three Stories] (McClure Co.). 1903. New edition (Doubleday). 1914.

Romance. By Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Hueffer (McClure Co. Afterwards transferred to Doubleday). 1904.

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Harper), 1904. The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions (Harper). 1906.

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Harper). 1907.

A Point of Honour: A Military Tale (McClure Co. Afterwards transferred to Doubleday). 1908. Under Western Eyes: A Novel (Harper). 1911.

A Personal Retold (Harper). 1912.

‘Twist Land and Sea: Tales (Doran). 1912. New edition (Doubleday). 1911.

Chance: A Tale in Two Parts (Doubleday). 1914.

A Set of Six [Tales: one, “The Duel.” previously issued as “A Point of Honour”] (Doubleday). 1915.

Victory: An Island Tale (Doubleday). 1915.

Within the Tides: Tales (Doubleday). 1916.





INDEX




_Almayer’s Folly_, 9, 12, 13, 14, 22, 38, 75, 119

Bennett, Arnold, 39, 83Beresford, J. D., 116_Brothers Karamazov, The_, 109Browning, 84, 101, 102, 103, 104

_Chance_, 14, 16, 21, 43, 33, 56, 119_Cherry Orchard, The_, 60, 109Chesterton, G. K., 84Conrad, J., birth, 8, naturalised, 8Curie, R., 99

Dickens, 85Dostoievsky, 20, 84, 113, 114

Eliot, George, 85_End of the Tether, The_, 56_Evan Harrington_, 38_Eve of St Agnes, The_, 81

Flaubert, 77, 114Form, 40Forster, E. M., 117_Freya of the Seven Islands_, 35

Galsworthy, J., 59George, W. L., 116

Hardy, 38, 59, 93_Heart of Darkness_, 17, 56, 75, 79, 81Hueffer, F. M., 14

Irony, 55

James, Henry, 38, 41, 42, 59, 110

Keats, 81Kipling, R., 38, 110

_Lord Jim_, 13, 16, 43, 56, 73, 80Lyrical impulse, 82

_Madame Bovary_, 38, 77,110
Meredith, 38, 84Method in fiction, 41, 48, etc.
Mid-Victorian English novel, 58_Mirror of the Sea, The_, 16, 21, 27, 30, 32

Nature, 78_Nigger of the Narcissus_, The, 13, 15. 27, 56, 63, 75, 86_Nostrcmo_, 14, 18, 43, 49, 56, 79, 90, 96, 97, 102

_Outcast of the Islands, An_, 14, 19, 73, 79, 82, 85

Philosophy, 57Poland, 9, 24

Realism. 108, 110_Return, The_, 75_Richard Feverel,_ 38
_Romance_, 14, 70Romance, 108. Russian influence, 109, 112

Sea, 8, 28_Secret Agent, The_, 14, 19, 57, 72, 82, 103_Secret Sharer, The_, 20_Set of Six, A_, 20, 82Shaw, Bernard. 39
Ships, 33_Smile of Fortune, A_, 20_Some Réminiscences_, 21, 22, 26_Sordello_, 102_Spectator, The_, 12Stevenson, Robert Louis, 38, 93Style, 82Swinnerton, Frink, 106, 107, 116

_Tales of Unrest_, 15, 75Tchekov, 60Themes, 54Tolstoi, 114_T. P.‘s Weekly_, 18_Trtmolino_, 35Trollope, Anthony, 93Turgeniev, 20, 84, 114_'Twixt Land and Sea_, 20 56
_Typhoon_, 14, 17, 30, 56, 61, 75, 79, 80, 82

_Under Western Eyes_, 19, 57, 72, 82_Une Vie_, 38

_Victory_, 14, 118

Wells, H. G., 39, 59, 110Wharton, Mrs, 59, 83Whitman, 81

_Yellow Book, The_, 38_Youth_, 14, 17, 30, 73, 79, 80, 82