Excerpt from Conrad in Quest of His Youth: An Extravagance of Temperament A disquieting sentimental journey would be down the obituary column of The Times in search of novel-readers who have gone and died without ever knowing of the sentimental quest of Conrad. They would be the great majority, it seems, and we may drop a sigh for them or a "Serve you right," according to their opportunities. Incomplete lives. It is from such reflections by a number of Mr. Merrick's fellow-writers that this edition of his books has sprung, of which Conrad in Quest of His Youth is the first volume. Disagreeing among themselves on most matters, probably even on the value of each other to the State, they are agreed on this, that Mr. Merrick is one of the flowers of their calling; and they have, perhaps, an uneasy feeling that if the public will not take his works to their heart there must be something wrong with the popularity of their own. "Unless you like Merrick also, please not to like me." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.