“All the majesty of illimitable oceans, all the charm of 
the mysterious southern seas, all the adventure end dark 
passions of unknown lands and races—all these Conrad 
gives us, as no other ever has and no other ever can!”’ 

“His books have no counterpart in the entire 
range of English literature.” — Sir Hugh Clifford. 
Nothing that Joseph Conrad himself has written is more filled with 
romance than the amazing story of his own life. How a spirited Polish 
lad with a longing for the sea rose to a pre-eminent place in the world’s 
literature is an incredible narrative woven out of the slender threads of 
chance. 
OMEWHERE Conrad himself has told his ever wrote. And all over his works lies the brood- “Probably the only writ- 
story. When he was a little boy in Poland ing majesty of the ocean—or the mystic beauty ing of the last twelve 
he once put his finger on a map and said: _ of the isles of the South Sea! It is an astonishing years that will enrich 
He had pointed to the 
And years later 
“T shall go there!” 
Congo, in deepest Africa. 
he went to the Congo. He had a longing for the “Here, surely, if ever, is genius!” Cone OMaRGA CIEE. fe ise 
sea, this sensitive lad, child of an inland race. He tinction is that I wrote 
the first long apprecia- 
made his way to Marseilles and shipped as a cabin- 
boy on a sailing vessel. For twenty-five years 
thereafter the open sea was his home... . There 
is no space here to tell the amazing narrative of his 
life, except one extraordinary part of it. Until he 
was past twenty, he had never spoken a word of 
English. Nor did he write a story until he was over 
thirty. Yet today this former impressionable little 
Polish cabin-boy is acclaimed—not merely by the 
public, but by other writers themselves—as_ the price—so that every Conrad lover may have ete peace meat 
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foremost living English novelist. them. This set includes: The Rescue ; Youth ; immortal company of 
. Chance; Victory; Typhoon; Lord Jim; Almayer’s Meredith, Hardy, and 
Read, in the panel at the right, what other au- 
thors say about this great master. These, as you 
can see, are men of distinction, who weigh their 
words. And all over the world, tens of thousands 
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Jable praise. 
from de Luxe plates and bound in handsome says: 
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books, as one critic says, are quite indescribable. who can inspire enthusiasm among fellow-craftsmen 
In his clear, free style, he is reminiscent of a 
great Frenchman like de Maupassant; in_ his 
insight into the tragic human emotions he is as 
discerning as Dostoyevsky. He is as subtle as 
Henry James in his artistry; yet the life he depicts 
—ihe life mostly of outcasts, wanderers, and ad- 
venturers in the farthest places of the earth—is 
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H. G. Wells says: 
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As for those who are en- 
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