Download or read book A Personal Record Illustrated written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, and the writing of Almayer's Folly.