First Published in 1986. On 22 January 1910, after two years’ work on what he had intended as a break from Chance, Conrad finally finished the manuscript of Under Western Eyes. It had been begun, like many of his novels, as a short story, to be called simply ‘Razumov’, in which he would try ‘to capture the very soul of things Russian’ (Jean-Aubry, 1927, II, p. 64). Some 130,000 words later, Conrad was physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted. This is a collection of correspondence, biography and writing on Joseph Conrad’s work.
Table of Contents:
1 Author’s note to Almayer’s Folly (1895), 2 To Edward Garnett, 24 September 1895, 3 To Edward Noble, 28 October 1895, 4 To Edward Noble, 2 November 1895, 5 To Edward Garnett, 29 November 1896, 6 To Edward Garnett, 13 February 1897, 7 Preface to The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ (1897) 8 To R. B. Cunninghame Graham, 5 August 1897, 9 To William Blackwood, 6 September 1897, 10 To Edward Garnett, 29 September 1897, 11 To Edward Garnett, 11 October 1897, 12 To Edward Garnett, 5 December 1897, 13 To R. B. Cunninghame Graham, 20 December, 1897 14 To John Galsworthy, 16 January 1898, 15 To R. B. Cunninghame Graham, 31 January 1898, 16 ‘Tales of the sea’ (1898) 17 To H. G. Wells, 4 December 1898, 18 To Mme Angèle Zagorska, Christmas 1898, 19 To William Blackwood, 31 December 1898, 20 To John Galsworthy, 11 February 1899, 21 To Sir Hugh Clifford, 9 October 1899, 22 To William Blackwood, 8 November 1899, 23 To Edward Garnett, 12 November 1900, 24 To John Galsworthy, 11 November 1901, 25 To William Blackwood, 31 May 1902 26 To Arnold Bennett, 6 November 1902 27 From ‘A glance at two books’ (1904) 28 ‘Guy de Maupassant’ (1904) 29 From ‘Henry James: an appreciation’ (1904), 30 To R. B. Cunninghame Graham, 31 October 1904, 31 ‘Books’ (1905), 32 ‘John Galsworthy’ (1906), 33 To Messrs Methuen & Co., 30 May 1906, 34 To John Galsworthy, 12 September 1906, 35 To Edward Garnett, 1 October 1907, 36 To Helen Sanderson, September 1910, 37 To Edward Garnett, 20 October 1911, 38 To Miss O. R. Garnett, 20 October 1911, 39 To Edward Garnett, 5 November 1912, 40 To Edward Garnett, 23 February 1914, 41 To Sir Sidney Colvin, 27 February 1917, 42 To Sir Sidney Colvin, 18 March 1917, 43 ‘Turgenev’ (1917) 44 From the Author’s note to Youth (written 1917) 45 To Barrett H. Clark, 4 May 1918 88, 46 To Hugh Walpole, 7 June 1918, 7 To F. N. Doubleday, 21 December 1918, 48 From the Author’s note to Typhoon and Other Stories (written 1919) 91, 49 To J. B. Pinker, 11 November 1919 50 From the Author’s note to The Secret Agent (written 1920) 51 From the Author’s note to Under Western Eyes (written 1920) 52 From the Author’s note to Within the Tides (written 1920) 53 To Richard Curie, 24 April 1922 54 To C. K. Scott Moncrieff, 17 December 1922 55 To Ernst Bendz, 7 March 1923 56 To Richard Curie, 14 July 1923 57 To Henry S. Canby, 7 April 1924, The Shadow Line.
