Preface - Acknowledgements - A Note on the Text - Conrad's Life: A Chronology - PART 1 CONRAD'S FAMILY - PART 2 CONRAD AT HOME - PART 3 CONRAD AND THE SEA - PART 4 CONRAD IN THE NINETIES - PART 5 LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS - PART 6 UNDER ARTISTS' EYES - PART 7 CONRAD IN AMERICA - PART 8 PEN PORTRAITS - PART 9 CONRAD'S DEATH - Index

These 60 recollections present some of the many facets of Conrad the writer, the adventurer and the recluse, the Polish gallant and the neurotic modernist, the Edwardian country gentleman and the penniless beggar.