A Personal Record - Large Print Edition

By: Conrad, Joseph

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town; and since saints are supposed to look benignantly on humble believers, I indulge in the pleasant fancy that the shade of old Flaubert-who imagined himself to be (among other things) a descendant of Vikings-might have hovered with amused interest over the docks of a 2,000-ton steamer called the Adowa, on board of which, gripped by the inclement winter alongside a quay in Rouen, the tenth chapter of "Almayer's Folly" was begun. With interest, I say, for was not the kind Norman giant with enormous mustaches and a thundering voice the last of the Romantics? Was he not, in his unworldly, almost ascetic, devotion to his art, a sort of literary, saint-like hermit?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08Q6SQXSK
• ISBN13: 9798566882611
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 10.0"