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Joseph Conrad: A Literary Life

Cedric Watts

English Intermediate novel
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1989

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166

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Drawing out the distinctive thematic preoccupations and technical devices in Conrad's writing, Professor Watts explores Conrad's importance and influence as a moral, social and political commentator. He focuses in particular on Almayer's Folly, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart

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Drawing out the distinctive thematic preoccupations and technical devices in Conrad's writing, Professor Watts explores Conrad's importance and influence as a moral, social and political commentator. He focuses in particular on Almayer's Folly, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo and Chance.

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