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Conrad: Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River (Everyman's Library (Paper))
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Product Description
Almayer's Folly (1895) was Conrad's first novel in the English language. Fascinated with the sea, Conrad joined his first ship in 1874. He began writing about 1886 and brought to it a good knowledge of many peoples and a profound feeling of the contrast between the tightly enclosed communities of ships' crewsand the close egocentric individualism characterizing land societies. In this preoccupation with the exploration of moral issues he was in the English tradition, but brought to the English novel an admiration for the French realists. Almayer's Folly is set in the far East and tells the story of Conrad's first 'isolated man': his domestic, social and political defeat.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #411711 in Books
- Published on: 1995-08-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 206 pages
Customer Reviews
Conrad's astonishing debut
Conrad's first novel is also one of his best. The writing has an easy flow and the story is involving. It's amazing how a man that only started learning English when he was 22 years old, and who was a practitioner at an entirely different craft (seamanship) can write like this.
