Directory
References
Discover
Almayer’s Folly
novel by Conrad
Learn about this topic in these articles:
discussed in biography
- In Joseph Conrad: Writing career: notable works, themes, and style of Joseph Conrad
…a command, began to write Almayer’s Folly. The task was interrupted by the strangest and probably the most important of his adventures. As a child in Poland, he had stuck his finger on the centre of the map of Africa and said, “When I grow up I shall go there.”…
Read More
English literature
- In English literature: The Edwardians
In Almayer’s Folly (1895) and Lord Jim (1900), he had seemed to sympathize with this predicament; but in Heart of Darkness (1902), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), and Under Western Eyes (1911), he detailed such imposition, and the psychological pathologies he increasingly
Read More