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The Shadow-Line: A Confession
by CONRAD, Joseph
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About This Item
London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, 1917. First Edition. London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, 1917. First Edition. First Impression, one of 5,000 copies. Octavo (19cm); sage green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and dark brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],228 + 18pp publisher's catalog bound at rear. Tiny nick to cloth at crown, light wear to base of spine, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket priced 5/- net at lower spine; edgeworn, sunned and dust-soiled on spine and panels, with some shallow losses along upper edge (affecting "The" and the "w" in "Shadow" at upper spine), and several splits and tears to joints and lower spine panel, strengthened or tape-mended on verso; Very Good.
Maritime novel, set in the Orient, first serialized in the Metropolitan Magazine (New York) and the English Review in 1916. Somewhat uncommon in dustwrapper. EHRSAM, p.307.
Maritime novel, set in the Orient, first serialized in the Metropolitan Magazine (New York) and the English Review in 1916. Somewhat uncommon in dustwrapper. EHRSAM, p.307.
Synopsis
Joseph Conrad (originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. His parents, ardent Polish patriots, died when he was a child, following their exile for anti-Russian activities, and he came under the protection of his tradition-conscious uncle, Thaddeus Bobrowski, who watched over him for the next twenty-five years. In 1874 Bobrowski conceded to his nephew's passionate desire to go to sea, and Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality and his Master's certificate in the British Merchant Service. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly , in 1895. The following year he married Jessie George and eventually settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth , Heart of Darkness , Lord Jim , Typhoon , Nostromo , The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes . He continued to write until his death in 1924. Today Conrad is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in English—his third language. He once described himself as being concerned 'with the ideal value of things, events and people'; in the Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' he defined his task as 'by the power of the written word ... before all, to make you see'.
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- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52784
- Title
- The Shadow-Line: A Confession
- Author
- CONRAD, Joseph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London & Toronto
- Date Published
- 1917
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- CALIFORNIA-VBF
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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