Joseph Conrad: A Critical BiographyThat this is the definitive life there can be little doubt here is Conrad as we have never had him before rarely has there been so enthralling and minute a study. The Times A biography in which understanding is informed with detachment, and scholarship tempered with urbanity. It is hard to imagine a more reliable or readable book. The Times Literary Supplement Published 1971, Pelican Book. Binding of book is tight. Few marks of wear on covers of book.