The shadow-line : a confession "worthy of my undying regard" / Joseph Conrad ; edited with an introduction by Jeremy Hawthorn.

By: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.

Contributor(s): Hawthorn, Jeremy .

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BookSeries: World's classics.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1985 (1987)Description: xl, 142 p. ; 19 cm.ISBN: 0192816861.Subject(s): Ship captains -- Fiction

DDC classification: 823.91 CON

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Store Item	823.91 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00062407

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Shadow-Line, the story of the trials of a young Captain on a shop, is the masterpiece of Conrad's final creative period.

Bibliography: p. [xxxii]-xxxiii.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

General Editor's Preface (p. vii)
Acknowledgements (p. x)
Introduction (p. xi)
Note on the Text (p. xxxiv)
Select Bibliography (p. xli)
A Chronology of Joseph Conrad (p. xlv)
Map (p. liv)
The Shadow-Line (p. 1)
Author's Note (p. 110)
Explanatory Notes (p. 113)
Glossary of Foreign Words, Geographical Names, and Technical Terms (p. 130)

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Lineis Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to the meaning of war through the stimulus of art. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, this masterpiece relates the story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him with a ship becalmed in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the sense of isolation that his position imposes, the captain crosses the "shadow-line" between youth and adulthood. The qualities needed to confront the ship's crisis symbolize the very qualities needed by humanity, not only to face evil and destruction, but also to come to terms with life. "[A] harrowing but heartwarming story....Let's hear more from Fred Williams." --AudioFile"Williams's narration is almost elegiac in pacing and tone...[he] gives the character's voice a moral weight, reflective of his growing maturity." --Booklist Joseph Conrad(Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) (1857-1924) was born in the Ukraine. Raised by an uncle after the death of his parents, he educated himself by reading widely in Polish and French. At age twenty-one he began a long career sailing the seas on French merchant vessels, after which he went to London and began writing, using the romance and adventure of his own life for his incomparable sea novels. Fred Williams, a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, works in theater, film, television, and radio in England, Ireland, and America. Besides narrating audiobooks, he is a performer in living-history reenactments, an archer, and a poet. Excerpted from The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Joseph Conrad is recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novelists.

He was born Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in the Polish Ukraine. His father, a writer and translator, was from Polish nobility, but political activity against Russian oppression led to his exile. Conrad was orphaned at a young age and subsequently raised by his uncle.

At 17 he went to sea, an experience that shaped the bleak view of human nature which he expressed in his fiction. In such works as Lord Jim (1900), Youth (1902), and Nostromo (1904), Conrad depicts individuals thrust by circumstances beyond their control into moral and emotional dilemmas. His novel Heart of Darkness (1902), perhaps his best known and most influential work, narrates a literal journey to the center of the African jungle. This novel inspired the acclaimed motion picture Apocalypse Now.

After the publication of his first novel, Almayer's Folly (1895), Conrad gave up the sea. He produced thirteen novels, two volumes of memoirs, and twenty-eight short stories. He died on August 3, 1924, in England.

(Bowker Author Biography)