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A master of rough crossings ; The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad By John Stape ++ HEINEMANN [pound]20 (372pp)++ Joseph Conrad: a life By Zdislaw Najder, trans. Halina Najder ++ CAMDEN HOUSE [pound]30 (745pp)

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20070817
Author:PAUL BAILEY

These two books, by noted Conrad scholars, have been published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the great novelist's birth. John Stape's The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is a work of formidable concision. He alerts readers at the outset that he will not be offering literary criticism or detailed analysis of his subject's novels and stories. Zdzislaw Najder's Joseph Conrad: a life, which originally appeared in its English edition in 1984 and has now been revised to keep pace with recent discoveries, is by contrast a monumental slab of a biography, from which nothing important or, ...

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