Conrad's Eastern World

by Norman Sherry

• ISBN13: 9780521291200
• ISBN10: 0521291208
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1977-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A book for those interested in Conrad's life and work and/or literary detection convincingly performed. Professor Sherry establishes how well Conrad knew the East and how the original material he garnered there was supplemented from other sources; he also shows what Conrad made of his experiences, thus revealing clearly what the artist's own contribution was.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: The conditions of Conrad's active life

2. Biography: The Eastern seas

Part 1. 'Lord Jim': 3. That scandal of the Eastern seas

4. The flesh and blood individual

Part II. 'Lord Jim', 'Almayer's Folly', ' An Outcast of the Islands': 5. The Rajah Laut

6. An Eastern River

7. Undoubted sources: dull, wise books

Part III. 'The End of the Tether': 8. An Eastern port: Singapore

9. The Deputy Neptune and the Arab shipowner

Part IV. 'The Shadow-Line': Exact Autobiography: 10. First command

11. Conrad's predecessor on the Otago

12. The delay in Bangkok

13. The Gulf of Siam

Part V. Conclusion: The Work of the Imagination: 14. 'The Secret Sharer': The basic fact of the tale

15. Justice to the visible universe

Appendices

References

Index.