Rent A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences

Synopsis

As Conrad writes in his introduction to these reminiscences, "[T]hese memories put down without any regard for established conventions have not been thrown off without system and purpose. They have their hope and their aim. The hope that from the reading of these pages there may emerge at last the vision of a personality; the man behind the books so fundamentally dissimilar as, for instance, ALMAYER’S FOLLY and THE SECRET AGENT, and yet a coherent, justifiable personality both in its origin and in its action. This is the hope. The immediate aim, closely associated with the hope, is to give the record of personal memories by presenting faithfully the feelings and sensations connected with the writing of my first book and with my first contact with the sea." He also writes about Henry James, Anatole France, Stephen Crane, Poland, war, the sinking of the Titanic, and much more.

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