Isbn: 9780374180140 - joseph conrad: the three lives : a biography (14 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Used - Acceptable. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Boards have shelf wear. Dust jacket has shelf wear. Previous bookseller sticker on back of dust jacket.

Zustand: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Large biography of the English author (1857-1924) includes bibliography of his works, index, and photos.1008 pages. Navy blue boards are slightly faded at the top edges, spine is slightly concave, and several pages are ruffled from dampness & have a little blue bleed from the top. Binding is tight and there are no marks of any sort. Dust jacket has a half-inch tear and small smudge on back. Clean and straight.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First Edition. Large biography, book is a clean unmarked copy. Dust jacket is scuffed and rubbed and some flap edge wrinkle.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition. Book and jacket are lightly worn, rubbed, and soiled.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Signed. NO dust jacket. SIGNED ON BOOKPLATE BY Author. Inscription on ffep by authors sister. Wear and discoloration to cover, wear throughout, slight rippling and soiling but is still in solid reading condition.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1979 clean well kept first edition hardcover copy with dust jacket, price tag unclipped, no markings, stickers or stains. fast shipping with tracking number.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good in Dustjacket. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1979. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374180148. 1008 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Herb Johnson Jacket photo of Jacob Epstein's bust of Conrad (1924), courtesy National Portrait Gallery, London. keywords: Europe England Literature Biography World Literature. DESCRIPTION - Considering that Joseph Conrad's life was, for a writer, unusually varied and colorful, it is remarkable that there are only three earlier biographies, the most recent published nearly two decades ago. Interest in Conrad's work is at a new high, and the author of The Nigger of the Narcissus, Lard Jim, Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes is now clearly seen not only as a superb romancer but also as one of the great twentieth-century explorers of moral dilemmas, who raises in his fiction the enduring questions of human existence. Frederick R. Karl's magisterial biography, the fruit of a lifetime's study of Conrad, establishes how and why this son of Polish nationalist revolutionaries turned English seaman became one of the leading novelists in our language. These three lives' 'as Pole, as sailor, and then as writerwere intertwined. Even as a youngster in Poland, Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was a writer in the making. During the years at sea, Mr. Karl also shows, Conrad was observing with the eyes of the future novelist. And so, when he turned seriously to writing, in a language learned late and with his life more than half over, he was armed, prepared. Drawing on thousands of letters and other documentation, Mr. Karl integrates Conrad with the Polish, French, and British historical backgrounds; with social and political contexts; and with cultural and literary influences, including Polish poetry and prose, French Symbolist writing, the English classics, and his Edwardian and Georgian colleagues and friends, among them Henry James, Stephen Crane, H. G. Wells, and Ford Madox Ford. Mr. Karl himself brings a novelist's talent to bear on his dramatic narrative of a life that was adventurous from beginning to endchild- hood under Russian oppression, flamboyant adolescence in France, twenty years at sea under sail and steam, and then thirty more of struggle at the writer's desk and in the London literary world. To which he adds sensitive, tactful psychological analysis and high skills as a literary critic. The result is a definitive biography, on the summit of achievement occupied by such books as Richard EIImann's Joyce and George Painter's Proust. inventory #4947. …

Hardback. 1st US Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown and signature to top of front free endpaper. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Copy of related clipping pasted to rear endpaper. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 1008 pages.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. About fine with slight damp staining at the extremities. In near fine dustwrapper with very little edge wear.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Some soilign to front and rear panels of jacket. Peeling to upper edge of front and rear panels. Bookplate to front pastedown. Foxing to page edges.; 9.30 X 6.40 X 2.20 inches; 1008 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Illustrated.Previous Owners Insc.ffep.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Boards have a few spots of light discoloration. Jacket lightly scuffed.; 9.2 X 6.3 X 2.2 inches; 1008 pages.

hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.