Conrad - Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and Under Western Eyes

Conrad - Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and Under Western Eyes

A Selection of Critical Essays, edited by C.B. Cox

Casebooks Series 65

London, Macmillan, 1984 second reprint

Paperback
13,8 x 21,5 cm.
224 Pages

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Conrad’s first two novels, set in Malaysia, immediately announced the appearance of a significant new writer, described by one reviewer as a future ‘Kipling of the eastern archipelago’. He produced his major fiction between 1897 and 1911, an arduously intense creative period that included The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ (1897), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), ‘Typhoon’ (1903), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911).
However, while all of these works were critically acclaimed for their original subjects and boldly experimental techniques, they did not have popular impact, and it was not until 1914 with the publication of Chance that Conrad achieved commercial success. The ‘eminent’ older writer was lionized on a visit to America in 1923 and in the following year offered a knighthood, which he declined.

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and – though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties (always with a strong foreign accent) – became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.

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