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5 days ago · Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) and W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) were both orphaned in childhood, learned French before they learned English and left their professions, sailor and doctor, to become writers. Maugham—with his two languages, two nationalities, two professions, his marriage and his homosexual relationships—was intensely aware of ...
Jun 25, 2024 · Joseph Conrad, 1916. Back in London in the summer of 1889, Conrad took rooms near the Thames and, while waiting for a command, began to write Almayer’s Folly. The task was interrupted by the strangest and probably the most important of his adventures.
2 days ago · Almayer's Folly, together with its successor, An Outcast of the Islands (1896), laid the foundation for Conrad's reputation as a romantic teller of exotic tales—a misunderstanding of his purpose that was to frustrate him for the rest of his career.
4 days ago · Ergo, you get Heart of Darkness set in the Congo, Nostromo in a fictional New World country and Almayer’s Folly in Dutch Borneo, among others. While Conrad was not the only writer to write maritime stories, his turf had a geographical foundation to it. The same with those whose fiction specialize in cities.
5 days ago · Conrad’s favourite destination was the vibrant, bustling port of Singapore as well as the remote ports of the Dutch East Indies, and his early works – Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Lord Jim and The Rescue – are based on the people and places he encountered during his own voyages on the Vidar and other trading vessels that plied the waters of Singapore and the Indonesian archipelago. Burnet connects the fictional and real worlds in this fascinating introduction to Conrad ...
Jun 8, 2024 · Conrad (Joseph, 1857-1924). Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River, 1st edition
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