As England's most complex novelist, Joseph Conrad requires and deserves the most
discriminating study. In the last decade or so he has begun to receive such perceptive …

The novel contains imagined lives that achieve a kind of meaning and intensity our own
lives do not. Out of the novelist's moral imagination--the breadth and depth of his awareness …

In Heart of Darkness Conrad explicitly selected two criteria—efficiency and the “idea” of the
civilizing mission—to judge imperialism. Although he himself did not ultimately espouse …

JOSEPH CONRAD THE MAKING OF A NOVELIST Page 1 JOSEPH CONRAD THE MAKING
OF A NOVELIST Page 2 LONDON : HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS …

First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about
Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind's ethical …

This book is a study of English fiction and drama about the First World War. In particular, it
examines how this literature explored the image of the soldier as hero. The prose writings of …

In 1884 HG Wells entered the Normal School of Science, South Kensing ton, on a guinea
scholarship to undertake a BSc in the pure sciences. He left in 1887 with a mediocre degree …

The early Residents of the Malay States1 are a unique phenomenon in the history of
imperialism. They were neither Nineteenth Century Empirebuilders nor Twentieth-Century …

Had Joseph Conrad been merely a prosperous English captain, occa-sionally visiting his
homeland, the controversy in Poland about his" Polish-ness" and his alleged" desertion" …

It is strange. The unreality of it seems to enter one's real life, penetrate into the bones, and
make the very heartbeats pulsate illusions through the arteries. One's will becomes the slave …