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Joseph Conrad as I Knew Him

Jessie Conrad

出版	Cambridge University Press, 1976
主題	Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / General
ISBN	11080841929781108084192
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zm_dnQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

'All future biographers of Conrad must turn to this book', claims the introduction to this 1926 memoir by the novelist's wife, Jessie (née George, 1873-1936). Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857) was the son of Polish patriots who died in exile. After a loving upbringing in his uncle's family, he determined to go to sea, and made a career in merchant ships, sailing all over the world, until in 1894, with the aid of a legacy from his uncle, he attempted to make a full-time career of writing in English, his third language (after Polish and French). Conrad married Jessie (then aged 22) in 1896, and this touching and intimate 1926 book, after an initial chapter describing his character (as illustrated by sometimes extraordinary anecdotes), describes the subsequent 28 years of their marriage, from their early married life in France to Conrad's death in 1924.