{"product_id":"a-personal-record","title":"A Personal Record","description":"A Personal Record is an autobiographical work (or \"fragment of biography\") by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912.It has also been published under the titles A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences and Some Reminiscences.Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author's life.[citation needed] It tells about his schooling in Russian Poland, his sailing in Marseille, the influence of his uncle Tadeusz Bobrowski, and the writing of Almayer's Folly.It provides a glimpse of how Conrad wished to be seen by his British public, as well as being an atmospheric work of art.[citation needed]\nThe \"Familiar Preface\" Conrad wrote for it includes the often quoted lines:\"Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, among others, on the idea of Fidelity.\"\n\nConrad wrote a new 'Author's Note' to A Personal Record for the Doubleday collected edition of his works (published in 1920) in which he discussed his friendship with the British colonial official and writer Hugh Clifford.","brand":"True Sign Publishing House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53594032308503,"sku":"9789355843593","price":103.95,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/3530356.webp?v=1782805569","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/products\/a-personal-record","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}