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Lord Jim (Paperback)
Joseph Conrad; Edited by J.H. Stape; Introduction by Allan Simmons
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This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great
novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An
English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors
and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he
travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit,
while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his
technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character
who reaches the status of a literary hero.
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Under Western Eyes (Paperback)
Joseph Conrad; Introduction by Allan Simmons; Notes by Allan Simmons
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Under Western Eyes traces a sequence or error, guilt, and
expiation. Its composition placed such demands upon Conrad that he
suffered a serious breakdown upon its completion. It is by common
critical consent one of his finest achievements. Bomb-throwing
assassins, political repression and revolt, emigre revolutionaries
infiltrated by a government spy: much of Under Western Eyes (1911)
is more topical than we might wish. Set in tsarist Russia and in
Geneva, its concern with perennial issues of human responsibility
gives it a lasting moral force. The contradictory demands placed
upon men and women by the social and political convulsions of the
modern age have never been more revealingly depicted. Joseph Conrad
personally felt no sympathy with either Russians or
revolutionaries. None the less his portrayal of both in Under
Western Eyes is dispassionate and disinterested. Through the
Western eyes of his narrator we are given a sombre but not entirely
pessimistic view of the human dilemmas which are born of oppression
and violence.
"Reader's Guides" provide a comprehensive starting point for any
advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and
influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh
critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close
reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide
up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most
commonly studied classic texts. Joseph Conrad's novella, "Heart of
Darkness" (1902), is a key text in the development of modernism and
one of the most important literary works of the early twentieth
century. This guide provides an invaluable introduction to reading
Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and includes sections on its contexts,
language and style, critical reception and literary and film
adaptations, including Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", and finally an
annotated guide to further reading.
"Reader's Guides" provide a comprehensive starting point for any
advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and
influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh
critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close
reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide
up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most
commonly studied classic texts. Joseph Conrad's novella, "Heart of
Darkness" (1902), is a key text in the development of modernism and
one of the most important literary works of the early twentieth
century. This guide provides an invaluable introduction to reading
Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and includes sections on its contexts,
language and style, critical reception and literary and film
adaptations, including Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", and finally an
annotated guide to further reading.
This volume includes Conrad's stories 'Youth'; 'The Secret Sharer';
'The Lagoon'; 'An Outpost of Progress'; 'Il Conde'; 'The Duel'. The
intention is a range of settings - we move from the sea to the
colonial world, the Far East and Africa to England and then the
Continent.
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