A Personal Record - 9789355843586
True Sign Publishing House
ISBN13:
9789355843586
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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
- | Publisher: True Sign Publishing House
- | Publication Date: Feb 16, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 106 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 9355843585
- | ISBN-13: 9789355843586
- Author:
- Joseph Conrad
- Publisher:
- True Sign Publishing House
- Publication Date:
- Feb 16, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 106 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 9355843585
- ISBN-13:
- 9789355843586