Joseph Conrad : Selected Literary Criticism and "The Shadow-Line"

Joseph Conrad. Edited By Allan Ingram

ISBN 10: 0416393500 / ISBN 13: 9780416393507

Published by Methuen, London England / New York, 1986

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Paperback. This volume brings together selections from the critical writings of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) and one of his best long stories, The Shadow-Line. The criticism is chosen from the whole span of his literary career and includes letters, prefaces and essays.Some, like the preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', and essays on Henry James and Hon Glasworth, are printed in full; others are extracts from letters to friends and publishers in which Conrad deals with what he has been trying to achieve in his major works. The commentary establishes the significance to Conrad's fiction of his positions as a critic and demostrates how a knowledge of his criticism can enrich a read of The Shadow-Line, perhaps the most satisfying and thought-provoking text of Conrad's later writing. 273 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Joseph Conrad : Selected Literary Criticism and "The Shadow-Line"
• Publisher: Methuen, London England / New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0416393500
• ISBN 13: 9780416393507
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature,classics Poetry and Plays

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Synopsis

First Published in 1986. On 22 January 1910, after two years’ work on what he had intended as a break from Chance, Conrad finally finished the manuscript of Under Western Eyes. It had been begun, like many of his novels, as a short story, to be called simply ‘Razumov’, in which he would try ‘to capture the very soul of things Russian’ (Jean-Aubry, 1927, II, p. 64). Some 130,000 words later, Conrad was physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted. This is a collection of correspondence, biography and writing on Joseph Conrad’s work.

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Edited by Allan Ingram