The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad was a compelling read. From love to death, Conrad expounds on it all, using his life at sea to relate to the human ...

Step into the eyes and mind of a seaman who lived through an era and career never to be duplicated, with the morals, audacity and intelligence to communicate it ...

Joseph Conrad — 'The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.'

First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad's two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book "a very intimate ...

It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. Nothing will awaken the same response of pleasurable emotion or conscientious ...

This was described as the definitive biography, written by one of Conrad's closest friends, to whom the novelist willed his personal papers. It took many years ...

The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad - First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad's two autobiographical memoirs.

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', a 1897 novella by Joseph Conrad also known as The Children of the Sea; Children of the Sea is an 1872 oil-on-canvas painting ...

He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. Conrad is ...

Free Shipping - First Edition. - Hardcover - Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company - 1922 - A very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth spine ...