Joseph Conrad
Although Conrad is still, for many readers, primarily a novelist of the sea, some of his finest works have as their setting neither the sea nor the islands of Malaya nor the river Congo, with which his name is so often associated. The range and depth of his imagination encompassed all kinds of societies and every manner of theme; and he drew on his knowledge of Central Europe, where he was born and bred, no less than on his experiences as a master mariner. His style was formed not only by his reading of major English writers and of his French elders and contemporaries, but also by his study of practical treatises on seamanship.
Oliver Warner, for many years reader to the firm of Chatto and Windus, brings to his assessment of Conrad's work both a wide experience of literary criticism and specialized knowledge of sea subjects and of writers about the sea. He has written books on marine painting, on Captain Marryat, Nelson and Collingwood; he was also the author of English Maritime Writing: Hakluyt to Cook and of Gay in this series.
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