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From: The Spectator
Date: 20070825
Author:Treglown, Jeremy

THE SEVERAL LIVES OF JOSEPH CONRAD by John Stape Heinemann, £20, pp. 378, ISBN 9780434013272 £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655

Why did he do it? In his late thirties, Joseph Conrad abandoned the modestly successful career as a seaman which he had steadily built up. Though the job involved tiresome exams and increasing responsibilities, it had been his 'great passion', he wrote a dozen years later. 'I call it great because it was great to me. Others may call it a foolish infatuation. Those words have been applied to every love story.

But whatever it may be the fact remains that it ...

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