This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II Conrad's Biography And Autobiographical BOOKS In this chapter I mean to give, first of all, in a perfectly concise and colourless form, the salient facts of Conrad's life up to the time of his leaving the sea, and then I mean to examine in a more literary and romantic sense his two books of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II Conrad's Biography And Autobiographical BOOKS In this chapter I mean to give, first of all, in a perfectly concise and colourless form, the salient facts of Conrad's life up to the time of his leaving the sea, and then I mean to examine in a more literary and romantic sense his two books of recollections, Some Reminiscences and The Mirror of the Sea. And I hope to throw some light on the autobiographical basis of many of Conrad's stories. But I would like to say, straight off, that this chapter will not be of much value to the critic for, like the one that follows it, it is informative rather than critical. That stands to reason. Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine in the South of Poland on 6th December 1857. In 1861 he removed to Warsaw with his parents, and in 1862 his father, who had been deeply implicated in the last Polish rebellion, was banished to Vologda by the Russian government. His wife and son followed him into exile. In 1865 Conrad's mother died and his father sent him back to the Ukraine to stay with his maternal uncle (who is spoken of with such affectionate regard in Some Reminiscences), where he remained for five years. That was the happiest period of Conrad's childhood--this home-life of the country consciously enjoyed and revelled in. Conrad's first recollection of public matters was the liberation of the serfs, on the is committee of which his uncle was one of the leading spirits. In 1869 Conrad's father was freed on the ground that he was too ill to be dangerous any longer. He carried off his son to Cracow, the old Polish capital, and died there in 1870. Conrad was sent to the gymnasium of St Anne, the foremost public school of the city. There he came under the care of a tutor who...
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