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Conrad, Joseph

Baines, Jocelyn. Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography. London: Greenwood Press, London, 1976. Excellent up-to-date biography using his letters and other documents to inform the study.

Erdinast-Vulcan, Daphna. Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. The failure of myth, metaphysics, and textuality as reflected in Conrad's work.

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer). Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance. London: Duckworth, 1924. Vivid account by Conrad's friend and fellow novelist.

Hampson, Robert. Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992. Studies the novels from these aspects, drawing on psychological theories within Conrad's work rather than psychoanalysing it.

Karl, Frederick R., and Davies, Laurence, eds. Collected Letters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985-1996.

Page, Norman. A Conrad Companion. London: Macmillan, Biography followed by analysis and a synthesis of criticism.

Sherry, Norman. Conrad and His World. London: Thames and Hudson, 1972. Study by one of the foremost authorities on Conrad, discussing his background with illustrations from his own letters, corrected proofs, sketches, and other material.

Spittles, Brian. Joseph Conrad: Text and Context. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992. Discusses the historical, political, and cultural conditions for Conrad's work.

Stape, ed. Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Useful aid to Conrad studies.

Watts, Cedric. Joseph Conrad. A Literary Life. London: Macmillan, 1989. A biography taking in the cultural and literary development of Conrad.

Watts, Cedric. A Preface to Conrad. London and New York: Longman, A scholarly critical biography looking into Conrad's beliefs and background, his own comments on his work, and a political commentary.

Young, Gavin. In Search of Conrad. London: Hutchinson, 1991. Interesting approach to a study of Conrad's adventure novels, for which the author, having followed Conrad's routes through the East, discusses the novels in their context.