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Joseph Conrad

Interviews and Recollections

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Interviews and Recollections (IR)

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Table of contents (60 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Conrad’s Family

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Joseph Conrad as I Knew Him

      • Jessie Conrad
      Pages 3-6
    3. Conrad’s Wedding

      • Jessie Conrad
      Pages 7-9
    4. My Father: Joseph Conrad

      • Borys Conrad
      Pages 9-14
    5. Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered

      • John Conrad
      Pages 14-18
  3. Conrad at Home

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
    2. A Visit to Joseph Conrad

      • James Huneker
      Pages 21-27
    3. ‘He has never met “civilised” women’

      • Lady Ottoline Morrell
      Pages 27-33
    4. ‘Reserves of caustic severity’

      • Desmond MacCarthy
      Pages 33-35
    5. Joseph Conrad at Home in England

      • S. Karrakis
      Pages 35-39
    6. We Visit Joseph Conrad

      • Hamlin Garland
      Pages 39-43
    7. Conrad, the Man

      • Grace Willard
      Pages 43-48
    8. More about Conrad

      • Grace Willard
      Pages 48-53
  4. Conrad and the Sea

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
    2. Conrad: Two Biographical Episodes

      • Douglas Hamer
      Pages 57-59
    3. Memories of Joseph Conrad

      • T. Archibald Dukes
      Pages 59-60
    4. ‘He hated passengers’

      • Ben Gunn
      Pages 61-62
    5. Reminiscences of Conrad

      • John Galsworthy
      Pages 62-64
    6. Conrad and Crippen

      • Archibald Marshall
      Pages 64-65

About this book

These 60 recollections present some of the many facets of Conrad the writer, the adventurer and the recluse, the Polish gallant and the neurotic modernist, the Edwardian country gentleman and the penniless beggar.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Aberdeen, UK

    Martin Ray

Bibliographic Information

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