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A writer who grappled with moral values in his novels.(BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20051113
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Byline: James E. Person Jr, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Iconoclastic literary critic H. L. Mencken admired the Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) for both his immense skill as a storyteller and his allegedly amoral worldview. While the Sage of Baltimore believed "Conrad at his feeblest is still vastly ahead of most other story-tellers at their best," he also wrote that the hallmark of Conrad's better-known works is "a wholesale negation of all morals." But for all his brilliance in so much, Mencken was wrong about Conrad's vision of morals and their ...

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