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From: New Straits Times
Date: 20071028
Author:Santha Oorjitham

Santha Oorjitham
New Straits Times
10-28-2007
Conrad's link with our world
Byline: Santha Oorjitham
Edition: New Sunday Times
Section: Main Section

AN exhibition on Joseph Conrad offers a glimpse of what life was like in this corner of the British Empire. The author witnessed the early days of what was to become an independent nation, Conradians tell SANTHA OORJITHAM.

The Malay Archipelago is part of "the Eastern Seas from which I have carried away into my writing life the greatest number of suggestions", wrote Joseph Conrad in his preface to The Shadow- Line.
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