A Conrad Chronology by Owen Knowles
This chronology is designed to provide a digest of Conrad's life as it develops from year to year. It is written as a series of diary or chronicle entries and thus caters for the reader who may wish to check a single fact. The main contents are supplemented by a Who's Who and indexes.-
A Katherine Mansfield Chronology
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A Henry James Chronology
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A Rossetti Family Chronology
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A Samuel Beckett Chronology
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Andrew Marvell Chronology
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A Mary Shelley Chronology
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A Sidney Chronology
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An H.G. Wells Chronology
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A Wilkie Collins Chronology
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A Dr Johnson Chronology
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A Hopkins Chronology
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A Kipling Chronology
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A D.H. Lawrence Chronology
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A Coleridge Chronology
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An Edgar Allan Poe Chronology
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A Hardy Chronology
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An E. M. Forster Chronology
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A Spenser Chronology
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A Tennyson Chronology
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A William Makepeace Thackeray Chronology
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A George Orwell Chronology
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An Oscar Wilde Chronology
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A Bernard Shaw Chronology
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A Romantics Chronology, 1780-1832
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An Elizabeth Gaskell Chronology
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A James Joyce Chronology
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A Ruskin Chronology
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A Harold Pinter Chronology
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A W.B. Yeats Chronology
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A Bronte Family Chronology
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A Browning Chronology
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A Robert Louis Stevenson Chronology
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An Edith Wharton Chronology
Wilfred Owen was born in Oswestry, a Shropshire town close to the Welsh border, on 18 March 1893. Intended first for the church, Owen finally decided at the age of 20 that literature meant more to him than evangelical religion. He was working as a tutor in France when Germany invaded Belgium and war was declared in 1914. Owen enlisted a year later, was commissioned into the 5th (Reserve) Battalion, Manchester Regiment in 1916, and crossed to France at the end of that year. By mid-1917 he was diagnosed as suffering from shellshock, and was invalided back to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland, where he met Siegfried Sassoon. He wrote some of his most powerful war poetry at the start of 1918 before he was declared fit to return to France. Owen was awarded the Military Cross for his service in the last British assaults on the German line, but he did not live to wear it or to see in print most of the poems that would make his name. In the early morning of 4th November 1918, his platoon was caught in heavy fire and Wilfred Owen was killed, only seven days before peace was declared. Jon Stallworthy, born in 1935, is Professor of English at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, a poet, and literary critic. His works include seven volumes of poetry, and biographies of Wilfred Owen and Louis MacNeice. He has edited several anthologies and is particularly known for his work on war poetry.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780333459133 |
| ISBN 10 | 033345913X |
| Title | A Conrad Chronology |
| Author | Owen Knowles |
| Series | Author Chronologies Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year published | 1990-01-04 |
| Number of pages | 165 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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