Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-141).
Contents
Conrad's life -- Literary background -- The impulse to write -- From dilettante to serious novelist -- The role of the artist -- Technique 1: Story and character -- Technique 2: Point of view--narration and time -- Technique 3: Impressionism--making the reader hear and see -- Attitude to the imagination -- Man in society.
Summary
Conrad is a difficult & uneven writer. The author has tried in this book to do no more than indicate some simple lines of approach to his more important novels & stories.