Panichas, George A. Joseph Conrad: His Moral Vision.(Book Review)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20051201
Author:Dougherty, Jude P.

PANICHAS, George A. Joseph Conrad: His Moral Vision. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2005. xviii + 165 pp. Cloth, $35.00--One does not normally think of Conrad as a moral philosopher, but it does not take Panichas long to convince the reader that, indeed, he was one. In successive chapters the book explores Conrad's "moral vision" as exemplified in The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Victory, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes, Chance, and The Rover. This by no means exhausts Conrad's oeuvre, but it is in these imaginative novels that Conrad records the enigmatic spectacle of human ...

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