| Joseph Conrad, Georges Jean-Aubry - 1927 - 404 páginas
...about your address from Eric. I'll send it now to Hampstead. I am glad you think well of The Rover. I have wanted for a long time to do a seaman's "return"...book came out, I was too seedy to care. I had about 10 weeks of a pretty bad time. My recovery was swift, — but my confidence has been badly shaken.... | |
| Gene M. Moore - 1992 - 296 páginas
...enormous shadow of Porquerolles Island darkening more than half of its width at this still early hour. "I have wanted for a long time to do a seaman's return before my own departure," as Conrad wrote to Galsworthy shortly before his death (Oswalds, 22 February 1924). Peyrol, his Rover,... | |
| John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - 1994 - 1094 páginas
...in his previous work. Conrad spoke of The Rover in terms that suggest its special importance to him: "I have wanted for a long time to do a seaman's 'return' (before my own departure)." Peyrol's desire in his final voyage to merge his destiny with that of his nation may reflect Conrad's... | |
| Ian Watt - 2000 - 230 páginas
...aged Conrad; as he writes to Galsworthy on 22 February 1924: 'I am glad you think well of The Rover. I have wanted for a long time to do a seaman's "return" (before my own departure).' He goes on to talk about Suspense, and mentions that in his view 'The Rover is a mere "interlude".'43... | |
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