Synopses & Reviews
Jocelyn Baines's biography is the first 'modern' life of Conrad, and it remains definitive. He elegantly and effortlessly captures the complex, exotic figure that was Conrad, in all his changing roles from the aristocratic Polish exile, the British merchant captain, the prolific author of Lord Jim, Nostromo, and The Secret Agent, the aloof husband and father, to the grandee of English literature courteously declining a knighthood.