Joseph Conrad

A Personal Record Annotated Joseph Conrad

It gives a brief look at how Conrad wished to be seen by his British public, just as being a barometrical show-stopper. The "Natural Preface" Conrad composed for it incorporates the regularly cited lines: "The individuals who read me know my conviction that the world, the fleeting scene, lays on a couple of extremely straightforward thoughts; so basic that they should be pretty much ancient. It rests quiet, among others, on the possibility of Fidelity."