Conrad gathered these pieces in 1921 to tidy up two decades of occasional writing. The Letters half holds appreciations of Henry James, Turgenev, Anatole France, Stephen Crane and others; the Life half turns to the loss of the Titanic, the fate of Poland, the war at sea and his memories of ships and the merchant service.
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