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Book of the Week: The Dawn Watch

Laurel Lefkow

Maya Jasanoff

Katrin Williams

Duncan Minshull

Book of the Week: The Dawn Watch: Episode 5

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The Dawn Watch

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The story of Joseph Conrad, who wrote Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim and sailed the seas.

Conrad's roving days are over. Married and living in Kent, rubbing shoulders with Henry James and Ford Madox Ford, he is now the quintessential man of letters.

The story of Joseph Conrad, abridged by Katrin Williams. He was author of Heart Of Darkness, Lord Jim, and sailed the seas..

5. The late 1890's. He is settled with Jessie at Pent Farm, Kent, rubbing shoulders with various literary greats. His sea-faring days are over but the imaginative adventures continue to flourish and the novel Nostromo begins to take shape..

Reader Laurel Lefkow

Producer Duncan Minshull.

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By Maya Jasanoff. The story of author Joseph Conrad, abridged by Katrin Williams.

By Maya Jasanoff. The story of author Joseph Conrad, abridged in five parts by Katrin Williams. Read by Laurel Lefkow.

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