A Personal Record (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789355843586)

A Personal Record is an autobiographical work (or ""fragment of biography"") by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912.It has also been published under the titles A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences and Some Reminiscences.Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author's life.[citation needed] It tells about his schooling in Russian Poland, his sailing in Marseille, the influence of his uncle Tadeusz Bobrowski, and the writing of Almayer's Folly.It provides a glimpse of how Conrad wished to be seen by his British public, as well as being an atmospheric work of art.[citation needed] The ""Familiar Preface"" Conrad wrote for it includes the often quoted lines: ""Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, among others, on the idea of Fidelity."" Conrad wrote a new 'Author's Note' to A Personal Record for the Doubleday collected edition of his works (published in 1920) in which he discussed his friendship with the British colonial official and writer Hugh Clifford.

Author: Joseph Conrad
ISBN-10: 9355843585
ISBN-13: 9789355843586
Publisher: True Sign Publishing House
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2023
Pages: 106
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d