A sequel to A Portrait in Letters: Correspondence to and about Joseph Conrad (Rodopi, 1995), this volume collects and annotates letters to Joseph Conrad by his family, friends, admirers, and publishers. An indispensable companion to the writer's own letters, it restores the quality of exchange, interaction, and debate that belongs to a major correspondence. It also leads to a fuller, more rounded picture of Conrad in his personal and professional dealings: both of the mutualities and rituals that underpinned his close friendships and of the terms underlying his mutual disagreements with others.
Joseph Conrad - Memories and Impressions - An Annotated Bibliography
Published in cooperation with The Joseph Conrad Society (UK), this new series of Conrad monographs entitled "Conrad Studies" intends to make available rare or out-of-print items of Conradiana, collections of documentary and other historical materials as well as criticism that has achieved classic status. The editors welcome proposals for volumes in the series.
Writing to H. G. Wells on April 25, 1905, Conrad said, "but since, O Brother!, I am but a novelist I must speak in images." Thus he expressed one important aspect of his artistic theory, for it was his constant concern to find the right word to produce the right image. This talent he ascribed to his friend Edward Garnett: 'You no doubt have the gift of the "mot juste," of those sentences that are like a flash of limelight on the facade of a cathedral or a flash of lightning on a landscape when the whole scene and all the details leap up before the eye in a moment and are irresistibly impressed on memory by their sudden vividness'. REUPLOAD NEEDED
Rocketman - Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond
Screenwriter Klausner (_Space Cowboys_), writing with astronaut Conrad's second wife, Nancy, brings a snappy, movie-dialogue feel to this biography of Charles "Pete" Conrad (1930–1999). Perhaps not as well remembered as some of his colleagues because his missions fell between the more famous ones, Conrad flew on Gemini 5, which set a record for the most days in space up to that point, on Gemini11, notable for rendezvousing and docking with a rocket on the first orbit, and commanded Apollo 12 on a glitch-free ride to the moon. A decade later, Conrad was called on to save the ill-fated Skylab, which had suffered crippling injuries on its journey into space.
Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honour. Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors.
