A Personal Record is writer Joseph Conrad's autobiography. The writing is lyrical and atmospheric and commonly believed to be somewhat embellished. It does, however, give great insight into his Polish childhood, his sailing adventures and his aspirations in the eyes of the British public. It also documents the process of writing Almayer's Folly. The preface to the work contains the much-quoted lines: “Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few v...

This 1st volume of "100 Books You Must Read Before You Die" contains the following 100 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names:Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]Emma, Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen]Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac]Beauty And The Beast [Barbot de Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne]The Law [Frédéric Bastiat]Cabin Fever [B. M. Bower]The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights [Brontë Sisters]Tarza...