Conrad's Eastern world
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Conrad's Eastern world
Cambridge University Press, 1976, c1966
1st pbk. ed
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Conrad's Eastern world / Norman Sherry
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Conrad's Eastern world / Norman Sherry
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Bibliography: p. 323-332
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A book for those interested in Conrad's life and work and/or literary detection convincingly performed. Professor Sherry establishes how well Conrad knew the East and how the original material he garnered there was supplemented from other sources; he also shows what Conrad made of his experiences, thus revealing clearly what the artist's own contribution was.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: The conditions of Conrad's active life
- 2. Biography: The Eastern seas
- Part 1. 'Lord Jim': 3. That scandal of the Eastern seas
- 4. The flesh and blood individual
- Part II. 'Lord Jim', 'Almayer's Folly', ' An Outcast of the Islands': 5. The Rajah Laut
- 6. An Eastern River
- 7. Undoubted sources: dull, wise books
- Part III. 'The End of the Tether': 8. An Eastern port: Singapore
- 9. The Deputy Neptune and the Arab shipowner
- Part IV. 'The Shadow-Line': Exact Autobiography: 10. First command
- 11. Conrad's predecessor on the Otago
- 12. The delay in Bangkok
- 13. The Gulf of Siam
- Part V. Conclusion: The Work of the Imagination: 14. 'The Secret Sharer': The basic fact of the tale
- 15. Justice to the visible universe
- Appendices
- References
- Index.
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