A Personal Record | work by Conrad | Britannica (original) (raw)

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  In Joseph Conrad: Early years
  In A Personal Record Conrad relates that his first introduction to the English language was at the age of eight, when his father was translating the works of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo in order to support the household. In those solitary years with his father he…
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  In Joseph Conrad: Influence of Joseph Conrad
  …wrote in his preface to A Personal Record, “know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests, notably, among others, on the idea of Fidelity.” For Conrad fidelity is the…
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