a collection of eight critical essays on various works by Conrad. part of McGraw-Hill's "Contemporary Studies in Literature" series. essayists include editor Karl, Albert Guerard, Eloise Knapp Hay, Bernard Meyer, R.W.B. Lewis, John A. Palmer, Robert Wooster Stallman, Dorothy Van Ghent.
Along with his biographies, Frederick Karl wrote several volumes of literary criticism, among them American Fictions: 1940-1980. He also was general editor and volume co-editor of the Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, five volumes of which have appeared. He taught at City College of New York, Columbia, and NYU. Karl died in 2004.