Notes on Life and Letters

Notes on Life and Letters - The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad

Hardback (19 Feb 2004)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The twenty-six essays collected in Notes on Life and Letters (first published 1921) offer a kaleidoscopic view of Joseph Conrad's literary views and interest in the events of his day, including the Titanic disaster, First World War, and the re-emergence of his native Poland as a nation state. The introduction gives the history of the gathering of these diverse pieces into a single volume, traces the book's reception, and offers new perspectives on its relationship to Conrad's other writings. His essays underwent multiple layers of unauthorized intervention by typists, compositors and editors: this history is set out in the essay on the text and in the apparatus. The notes explain literary and historical references, identify places mentioned, and gloss foreign terms. Two maps supplement the explanatory material. This edition, first published in 2004 and established through modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's essays and reviews in an authoritative form.

Book information

ISBN: 9780521561631
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 824.912
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 447
Weight: 776g
Height: 146mm
Width: 224mm
Spine width: 31mm