{"product_id":"the-sea-dreamer-grard-jean-aubry-9780367897390","title":"The Sea Dreamer: A Definitive Biography of Joseph Conrad","description":"\u003cp\u003eOf Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken has written: 'There was something almost suggesting the vastness of a natural phenomenon. He transcended all the rules. There have been perhaps, greater novelists, but I believe that he was incomparably the greatest artist whoever wrote a novel.'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1957, the year of the centenary of Conrad's birth, and although he was firmly established among the world's great literary figures, little was known about him generally, beyond the fact that he was himself once a sailor, and that the language he handled with such mastery was not the one to which he was born. This was described as the definitive biography, written by one of Conrad's closest friends, to whom the novelist willed his personal papers. It took many years to prepare and the author travelled extensively in the lands that Conrad knew and wrote about. He writes with clarity, compassion and understanding of Conrad's childhood in Russia (where the father was exiled for Polish nationalist activities); of how the youth of fifteen, who had never seen the sea before, became a sailor; of how at twenty-nine he became a British subject and master of his own ship; of how in 1894 he became a novelist almost by accident, rose rapidly to literary fame, found new friends and established himself in literary history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a record of the strangest and most enigmatic of lives, fascinating and authoritative at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e G駻ard Jean-Aubry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367897393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367897390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d","brand":"G駻ard Jean-Aubry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057188729087,"sku":"9780367897390","price":48.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d968c662-b0f7-4ca0-b61a-86681e5f4272.jpg?v=1685045540","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sea-dreamer-grard-jean-aubry-9780367897390","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}