Conrad's Eastern World

A book for those interested in Conrad's life and work and/or literary detection convincingly performed.

Norman Sherry (Author)

9780521291200, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 January 1977

372 pages
21.5 x 13.9 x 2.1 cm, 0.469 kg

'His work is … a memorable accomplishment, never likely, in its own special line, to be superseded …' Richard Curle, The Guardian

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]