'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder - the man knows, and can look on without a wink'
Joseph Conrad (originally J zef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski)
was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist
autocracy. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where he produced within
fifteen years such modern classics asYouth,Heart of Darkness,Lord
Jim,Typhoon,Nostromo,The Secret AgentandUnder Western Eyes. He
continued to write until his death in 1924. Today Conrad is
generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in
English-his third language.
Adam Hochschild is the author of seven books, including King
Leopold's Ghost- A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial
Africa and Bury the Chains- Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to
Free an Empire's Slaves. He teaches narrative writing at the
Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at
Berkeley.
Maya Jasanoff is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard. She
is the author of the prize-winning Edge of Empire- Lives,Culture,
and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 (2005) and Liberty'sExiles-
American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (2011), which
received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfi ction and
the George Washington Book Prize, and The Dawn Watch-Joseph Conrad
in a Global World (2017). A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Jasanoff won
the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction.
Timothy S. Hayes is an Instructor of English at Auburn University
in Alabama. His research interests include narrative theory and the
novel, particularly the works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph
Conrad.
Mike Mignola is an award-winning artist and writer. He is the
creator of Hellboy, which has been adapted into two feature films
by Guillermo del Toro. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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