... Kna s HERMAN MELVILLE'S life is very curiously divided. His time of seafaring was not long, and he had no desire, as Joseph Conrad had, to become proficient as a mariner. He sailed before the mast to Liverpool in 1837, but returned to America and was ...

... how's and wherefore's of the novelist's art, as manifest both in the classic and the modern. The perceptive study of Joseph Conrad brings into focus that noble, exciting non-English writer in English often poet in prose. Conrad forms an interesting contrast ...