Youth, Heart of Darkness, The End of the Tether

by Joseph Conrad, Owen Knowles

Overview

‘Youth', Heart of Darkness and ‘The End of the Tether' make up Conrad's most celebrated collection of short narratives. Heart of Darkness forms its somber centerpiece: set in the Congo of the 1890s, this haunting and widely influential Modernist masterpiece explores the limits of human experience as well as the nightmarish realities and consequences of imperialism. The Cambridge edition presents this trio of stories and Conrad's preface to the collection in forms more authoritative than any so far published. The introduction situates the stories in Conrad's publishing career, traces their sources and surveys contemporary reception. The edition includes detailed explanatory and contextual notes, a glossary of nautical terms, maps and illustrations. A textual essay and comprehensive apparatus reveal the history of each story's composition, revision and publication. This volume will allow scholars to see these familiar stories in a fresh light, by returning to Conrad's original texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521197991
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/07/2010
Series:	The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Owen Knowles is Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Hull.

Date of Birth:

December 3, 1857

Date of Death:

August 3, 1924

Place of Birth:

Berdiczew, Podolia, Russia

Place of Death:

Bishopsbourne, Kent, England

Education:

Tutored in Switzerland. Self-taught in classical literature. Attended maritime school in Marseilles, France

Table of Contents

General editors' preface; Chronology; Introduction; 'Youth', Heart of Darkness, 'The End of the Tether'; Explanatory notes; Glossary of nautical terms; The texts: an essay; Textual apparatus; Textual notes; Appendix A. Manuscript pagination: 'Youth' and Heart of Darkness; Appendix B. Blackwood's Memorandum of Agreement for the Youth Volume.

What People are Saying About This

Joyce Carol Oates

One of the great, if troubling, visionary works of Western civilization.

Editorial Reviews

Review of the series:
"The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad aims to be definitive, and [the books] have both scholarly and physical weight … The explanatory notes are compendious and thoughtfully arranged … invaluable to scholars of Conrad, modernist literary composition and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary practices and processes … These elegant and comprehensive volumes are a must for university libraries … [the series] is without question a definitive piece of scholarship."
Andrew Frayn, Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship

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