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A personal record ; [and] The shadow line

Conrad's life in his own words, now edited for scholarly use for the first time.

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  • "A personal record"@it
  • "Notes on life and letters"@en
  • "Personal record"
  • "Mirror of the sea"@en
  • "Personal record ; and, The mirror of the sea"
  • "Personal record ; The mirror of the sea"
  • "O pateras tou Tzozeph Konrant"
  • "Sammlung"
  • "Works"
  • "Some reminiscences"@en
  • "Shadow line"@en
  • "Shadow line"

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  • "Conrad's life in his own words, now edited for scholarly use for the first time."@en
  • "A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Joseph Conrad's early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a seaman. It is also an artistic and political manifesto. The introduction traces Conrad's sources and gives the history of writing and reception. The essay on the text and the apparatus set out the textual history. The notes explain literary and historical references, identify places, and gloss foreign terms. Four maps and a genealogical table supplement this explanatory material."@en
  • "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. Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about Conrad's life. It tells about his schooling in Russian Poland, his sailing in Marseille, the influence of his Uncle Tadeusz, and the writing of Almayer's Folly. On the whole it provides a fascinating glimpse of how Conrad wished to be seen by his British public, as well as being an at."@en
  • "A Personal Record is writer Joseph Conrad's autobiography. The writing is lyrical and atmospheric and commonly believed to be somewhat embellished. It does, however, give great insight into his Polish childhood, his sailing adventures and his aspirations in the eyes of the British public. It also documents the process of writing Almayer's Folly . The preface to the work contains the much-quoted lines: "Those who read me know my conviction that the world ..."@en
  • "The memoirs of the famous Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad."@en
  • ""An unreliable personsal account of the author's life" --Provided by publisher."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Romanhafte Biographien"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Autobiographie"
  • "Autobiographie"@en
  • "Downloadable World Book ebooks"@en
  • "Novelists, English"@en
  • "Armorial bookplates (Provenance)"@en
  • "English fiction"@en

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  • "A personal record ; [and] The shadow line"@en
  • "A Personal record"@en
  • "A Personal record"
  • "Personal record"
  • "Über mich selbst"
  • "A personal record ; The shadow line : a confession"@en
  • "A personal record Notes on life and letters"@en
  • "Personal Record"
  • "Memorie"
  • "Memorie"@it
  • "A personal record : The shadow line : a confession"@en
  • "Ze wspomnień"
  • "Ze wspomnień"@pl
  • "A personal record to The arrow of gold"
  • "A personal record, some reminiscences"@en
  • "A personal record : the shadow line : a confession"@en
  • "A personal record : The shadow line"@en
  • "Lebenserinnerungen. Autobiographie"
  • "A personal record. The shadow line"
  • "Lebenserinnerungen"
  • "A personal record some reminiscences"@en
  • "Notatnik osobisty : ze wspomnień"@pl
  • "A personal record ; and, the mirror of the sea"
  • "A personal record. [With a portrait.]"@en
  • "Uber mich selbst : einige Erinnerungen"
  • "A personal record; notes on life and letters"@en
  • "A presonal record"
  • "A personal recoed"
  • "A personal record ; Notes on life and letters"@en
  • "Ze wspomnien"
  • "A personal record"
  • "A personal record"@en
  • "A personal Record"
  • "A personal record ; Mirror of the sea"@en
  • "Some reminiscences, by Joseph Conrad. 2d edition"
  • "A personal record : some reminiscences ; The mirror of the sea : memories and impressions"@en
  • "A personal record : some reminiscences ; The mirror of the sea : memories and impressions"
  • "A personal record : the shadow line, a confession"
  • "A personal record : the shadow line, a confession"@en
  • "Prosōpiko ēmerologio"
  • "A personal record; some reminiscences"@en
  • "A personal record [and] the shadow line a confession"@en
  • "Lebenserinnerungen. autobiographie"
  • ""A personal record" to "The arrow of gold""
  • "A Personal Record"@en
  • "A Personal Record"
  • "A personal record [and] the shadow line : a confession"@en
  • "Über mich selbst : einige Erinnerungen"
  • "A personal record The shadow line : a confession"@en
  • "A pesonal record"@en
  • "A personal record and the mirror of the sea"
  • "A personal record : some reminiscences"@en
  • "A personal record : some reminiscences"
  • "Konfidentiellt : några hågkomster"
  • "Konfidentiellt : några hågkomster"@sv
  • "Über mich selbst einige Erinnerungen"
  • "A personal record ; The mirror of the sea"
  • "A personal record ; The mirror of the sea"@en

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