Joseph Conrad : the three lives : a biography / by Frederick R. Karl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karl, Frederick R. (Frederick Robert), 1927-2004.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.

Conrad, Joseph.

Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 1008 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [1979]

Contents:

Part I. The Polish Years: 1857-1874

Part II. The French Interlude: 1874-1878

Part III. The English Mariner: 1878-1889

Part IV. In Leopold's Congo: 1889-1890

Part V. The Writer: 1891-1899

Part VI. The Novelist: 1899-1904

Part VII. The Major Career: 1899-1910

Part VIII. Through Victory: 1911-1915

Part IX. Final Things: 1916-1924.

Notes:

"First Edition 1979."

"Designed by Herbert H. Johnson."

"This is the first biography of Joseph Conrad in twenty years, and the first to draw upon the entire range of his correspondence of nearly 4,000 letters."--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 917-976) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1979".

ISBN:

0374180148 :

OCLC:

4136294