The twenty-six essays collected in Notes on Life and Letters (first published 1921) offer a kaleidoscopic view of Joseph Conrad’s literary views and interest in the events of his day, including the Titanic disaster and First World War.

Joseph Conrad’s Notes on Life and Letters was first published in 1921. It is a thin array (for such a stretch of time) of really innocent attitudes: Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conrad reminiscent, Conrad controversial, including the political treatise Notes on the Polish Problem, the work presents different angles of thought to the public. From his life on the sea to all the different experiences with colonialism, the work covers a variety of subjects.

Joseph Conrad（3 December 1857 – 3 August 1932) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England.He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English sensibility into English literature.