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The Shadow-Line

A Confession

The Shadow-Line( )
Author: Conrad, Joseph
Editor: Hawthorn, Jeremy
Series title:Oxford World's Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-955556-7
Publication Date:Mar 2009
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $18.14AUD $18.95
Book Description:

Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier, to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea-captain faces a succession of crises on his first command, for which he feels himself responsible. The novel is a work full of 'sudden passions', as well as a penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood.

Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):19.304 x 12.7 x 1.016 cm
Book Weight:0.136 Kilograms
Author Biography
Conrad, Joseph. (Author)
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.

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