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A Personal Record

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First published: 1912
Pages: 113

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A Familiar Preface
21:30
Chapter I
43:56
Chapter II
39:45
Chapter III
40:48
Chapter IV
39:09
Chapter V
29:49
Chapter VI
40:34
Chapter VII
22:25

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Joseph Conrad looks back over his own unusual life in these reflective pages, tracing the path that carried him from a Polish childhood under Russian rule to the deck of a ship and finally to the writer's desk. He recalls the slow composition of his first novel, Almayer's Folly, often written in odd hours and strange places, and he thinks aloud about memory, conscience, and what it means to work in a language not his own. This is less a straight autobiography than a set of intimate meditations, circling and returning rather than marching in order. It offers a rare window into how one of English literature's great stylists came to be.

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though it was his third language. His works probe moral isolation, colonialism, and the darkness within.