| Description |
1 online resource (xxxviii, 474 pages) : maps |
| Summary |
Entries cover Conrad's life (health, Polish inheritance, the sea, ships and voyages), people (Borys Conrad, Apollo and Ewa Korzeniowski, J.M. Barrie, Stephen Crane, Stefan Zeromski), places (America, Bangkok, Berdyczow, Congo, Cracow, Marseilles), novels (Almayer's Folly, Lord Jim, Nostromo), stories, essays, and reviews (An Anarchist, Typhoon, Autocracy and War, Legends, Tales of the Sea), influences and sources (James Brooke, Alighieri Dante, Charles Dickens, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emile Zola), characters (Almayer family, Mr Jones, Jim, Captain Mitchell, Nostromo, the Professor, Edith Travers), reputation (biographies, films, influences on other writers, portraits and other images, translations), and historical context (First World War, Polish question, women's suffrage movement) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-422) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Encyclopedias.
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Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography -- Encyclopedias.
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Knowles, Owen.
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Moore, Gene M., 1948-
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| ISBN |
0191735019 |
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0198604211 |
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0198662149 |
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9780191735011 |
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9780198604211 |
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9780198662143 |
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