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- Last Essays is a volume of essays by Joseph Conrad, edited with an introduction by Richard Curle, and published posthumously in 1926 (London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons). The volume includes nineteen shorter pieces, mainly written by Conrad for various newspapers and magazines after the publication of in 1921. Together with the 1978 volume , edited by Zdzislaw Najder, they contain all of Conrad's miscellaneous writing. The essays in Last Essays are mainly about sea travel or literature. They contain many passages of interest to the enthusiast. The volume contains "Legends", the unfinished essay Conrad was working on when he died, and "", Conrad's first known writing, since often reprinted, and of great interest to the student of Heart of Darkness. It also contains Conrad's preface to Curle's Into the East (1921), in which Conrad laments the passing of an earlier form of travel and its replacement by tourism. "The Dover Patrol" was commissioned by Lord Northcliffe in 1921 for the unveiling of a monument commemorating the British naval efforts in protecting the English Channel during World War I. (en)
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- Last Essays is a volume of essays by Joseph Conrad, edited with an introduction by Richard Curle, and published posthumously in 1926 (London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons). The volume includes nineteen shorter pieces, mainly written by Conrad for various newspapers and magazines after the publication of in 1921. Together with the 1978 volume , edited by Zdzislaw Najder, they contain all of Conrad's miscellaneous writing. (en)
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