Notes on Life and Letters

Number of Chapters: 27

Length: 08 hours and 13 minutes

Language: English

Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conrad reminiscent, Conrad controversial", but never Conrad "with his boots off". He is particularly passionate when writing on Russian autocracy, on Poland's under-appreciated past and its hopes for the future, and on the self-serving blather of promoters loudly proclaiming that the sinking of the Titanic held no lessons for anyone but that the vessel should have had fewer lifeboats, and that her captain should have aimed to strike any iceberg head on. There are quieter, more tender recollections here too, including Conrad's appreciation of Stephen Crane, whom Conrad knew personally and liked very much, and a moving account of his return to Poland after a long absence at the very moment the Great War was breaking out. (Summary by Peter Dann)

Author's Note (Peter Dann)

Books — 1905 (Peter Dann)

Henry James — An Appreciation — 1905 (Peter Dann)

Alphonse Daudet — 1905 (Peter Dann)

Guy de Maupassant — 1904 (Peter Dann)

Anatole France — 1904 (Peter Dann)

Turgenev — 1917 (Peter Dann)

Stephen Crane — A Note Without Dates — 1919 (Peter Dann)

Tales of the Sea — 1898 (Peter Dann)

An Observer In Malaya — 1898 (Peter Dann)

A Happy Wanderer — 1910 (Peter Dann)

The Life Beyond — 1910 (Peter Dann)

The Ascending Effort — 1910 (Peter Dann)

The Censor of Plays — An Appreciation — 1907 (Peter Dann)

Autocracy and War — 1905 (Peter Dann)

The Crime of Partition — 1919 (Peter Dann)

A Note on the Polish Problem — 1916 (Peter Dann)

Poland Revisited — 1915 (Peter Dann)

First News — 1918 (Peter Dann)

Well Done — 1918 (Peter Dann)

Tradition — 1918 (Peter Dann)

Confidence — 1919 (Peter Dann)

Flight — 1917 (Peter Dann)

Some Reflections on the Loss of the Titanic — 1912 (Peter Dann)

Certain Aspects of the Admirable Inquiry into the Loss of the Titanic — 1912 (Peter Dann)

Protection of Ocean Liners — 1914 (Peter Dann)

A Friendly Place — 1914 (Peter Dann)

The audiobook Notes on Life and Letters falls under the genres of *non-fiction. It is written by Joseph Conrad.

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