Published to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is a brilliant and highly readable biography of a literary figure of world-wide reputation.
John Stape, Research Fellow in St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill, London, has taught in universities in Canada, France, and the Far East. He has edited Notes on Life and Letters and A Personal Record for The Cambridge Edition of Joseph Conrad and has co-edited Volumes 7 and 9 of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. The editor of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad, he is Contributing Editor of The Conradian- The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK). He has also written on E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy, William Golding, and Angus Wilson.
Formidable ... Stape's succinct way of dealing with Conrad's
'several lives' must be applauded.
*Independent*
A Fascinating portrait of a mind-boggling, globe-spanningly modern
life.
*Evening Standard*
Conrad is dead. I finished reading in something like a state of
mourning. John Stape has brought him so much to life - a living
man, a working writer, not a 'study', not a statue - that one can't
help suffering with him. I am so pleased to have had the experience
of this book. But it's sad as it is triumphant.
*Cynthia Ozick*
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