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The twenty-six essays collected in Notes on Life and Letters (first published 1921) offer a kaleidoscopic view of Joseph Conrad's literary views and interest in the events of his day, including the Titanic disaster, First World War, and the re-emergence of his native Poland as a nation state. The introduction gives the history of the gathering of these diverse pieces into a single volume, traces the book's reception, and offers new perspectives on its relationship to Conrad's other writings. His essays underwent multiple layers of unauthorised intervention by typists, compositors and editors: this history is set out in the essay on the text and in the apparatus. The notes explain literary and historical references, identify places mentioned, and gloss foreign terms. (Google)
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 27 mins
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Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1AUTHOR’S NOTE
2PART I—LETTERS
3BOOKS—1905.
4HENRY JAMES—AN APPRECIATION—1905
5ALPHONSE DAUDET—1898
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6GUY DE MAUPASSANT—1904 {1}
7ANATOLE FRANCE—1904
8TURGENEV {2}—1917
9STEPHEN CRANE—A NOTE WITHOUT DATES—1919
10TALES OF THE SEA—1898
11AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA {3}—1898
12A HAPPY WANDERER—1910
13THE LIFE BEYOND—1910
14THE ASCENDING EFFORT—1910
15THE CENSOR OF PLAYS—AN APPRECIATION—1907
16PART II—LIFE
17AUTOCRACY AND WAR—1905
18THE CRIME OF PARTITION—1919
19A NOTE ON THE POLISH PROBLEM—1916
20POLAND REVISITED—1915
21FIRST NEWS—1918
22WELL DONE—1918
23TRADITION—1918
24CONFIDENCE—1919
25FLIGHT—1917
26SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC—1912
27CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE ADMIRABLE INQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC—1912
28PROTECTION OF OCEAN LINERS {8}—1914
29A FRIENDLY PLACE
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