Joseph ConradRobert HampsonLabel: Reaktion BooksDescription: Joseph Conrad is widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. Robert Hampson traces Conrad’s life from his childhood in a Russian penal colony through his early manhood in Marseille and his years in the British Merchant Navy to his career as a novelist. It describes how these experiences inspired Conrad’s work from his early Malay novels to his best-known work Heart of Darkness. Robert Hampson also discusses Conrad’s important relations with other writers in particular Ford Madox Ford as well as his late-life political engagements and his relationships with women. Featuring new interpretations of all of Conrad’s major works this is an original interpretation of Conrad’s life of writing.
