A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad (HQ93)

Circa 1916: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated frontispiece and Endpapers

Original blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 285 + clean and bright pages, mild speckled edges and endpapers. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners and spine ends consistent with age. A compact pocket-size. (HQ93)

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A Personal Record is an autobiographical work by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912. It has also been published under the titles A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences and Some Reminiscences.

Conrad was born in Poland, moving to live in France in 1874. He subsequently joined the British merchant navy, and did not begin writing novels until he was nearly forty. In this book he describes his cultural heritage, and the central motives in his life as a seaman and a writer separated from the country where he was born. Events of his life are shown in sudden flashes of reflection, sometimes playful, but more often serious and definitive.

This is a captivating and moving book, which gives us illuminating insights into Joseph Conrad’s real past; his family and national background, and his persistent quest to impose on his life a meaning consistent with the exacting demands of the moral principles he had formulated and in which he strongly believed.

‘Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, amongst others, on the idea of Fidelity.’
(from A Personal Record) [Google Books]