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Conrad's Eastern world.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sherry, Norman.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Knowledge and learning.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
- Adventure stories, English--History and criticism.
- Adventure stories, English.
- Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, English.
- Travel.
- English fiction.
- British.
- History.
- Asia.
- British--Asia--History--19th century.
- English fiction--Asian influences.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Travel.
- East and West in literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 340 pages : 16 plates (including portraits, facsimiles) 3 maps, table. ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Cambridge U.P., 1966.
- Summary:
- A book for those interested in Conrad's life and work and/or literary detection convincingly performed. Professor Sherry establishes how well Conrad knew the East and how the original material he garnered there was supplemented from other sources; he also shows what Conrad made of his experiences, thus revealing clearly what the artist's own contribution was.
- Notes:
- Facsims. on endpapers.
- Bibliography: pages 323-332.
- ISBN:
- 0521291208
- 9780521291200
- OCLC:
- 362969
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