Conrad under Familial Eyes
Contributors: Zdzislaw Najder (Editor); Halina Carroll-Najder (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521025225
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; English; Literary; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; General; 1857-1924; 20th century; Biography; Conrad, Joseph,; Family; Novelists, English; Sources
First sentence: My grandfather Stanislaw Bobrowski, an ensign in the national cavalry, had two sons by Katarzyna Blazowska: Jozef (1790), my father; and Mikolaj (1792), a captain in the 2nd regiment of horse-fusiliers, knight of the Legion of Honour and of the Military Cross, a bachelor; and two daughters: Johanna (1794), married to Hiacynt Czosnowski, son of the starosta of Secygniow, and Salomea (1796, born after her father's death), married to Adam Jablonski, a deputy in the Volhynia szlachta commission.