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This volume of interviews and recollections offers a wide view of
E.M. Forster's character as observed and remembered by college
associates, close friends, chance acquaintances and fellow writers.
These 46 pieces, some published for the first time, variously
reveal facets of his private and public personalities: Forster the
subtle analyst of middle-class England, the spokesman for liberal
causes and humane values, the Cambridge insider and the committed
friend. Included is a chronology of the main events in Forster's
life. The editor of this volume, J.H. Stape, is the author of "E.M.
Forster: A Chronology" and co-author of "Angus Wilson: A
Bibliography, 1947-87".
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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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Tales of Unrest (Hardcover)
Joseph Conrad; Edited by Allan H. Simmons, J.H. Stape
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R3,946
Discovery Miles 39 460
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The five stories brought together in Tales of Unrest (1898) mark a
turning point in the writer's career. Conrad's first short story
collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft
staking a claim to diverse cultural and fictional territories. The
introduction situates the writing of these stories in Conrad's
career and discusses their sources and contemporary reception. The
explanatory notes identify literary and historical references and
real-life places, and indicate influences. Two maps and six
illustrations enrich the explanatory matter. The essay on the text
lays out the history of the work's composition and publication,
details interventions by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors,
and explains editorial policy. This edition, established through
modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's stories and his
preface to the collection in forms more authoritative than any so
far printed.
Joseph Conrad's centrality to modern literature is well
established. The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad provides
essential guidance to varied developments in the field of Conrad
studies since the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph
Conrad (1996). The volume's thirteen chapters offer diverse
perspectives on emergent areas of interest, including canon
formation, postcolonialism, gender, critical reception and
adaptation. Likewise, chapters on Conrad's autobiographical
writings, Heart of Darkness and 'The Secret Sharer', consider
recent trends in both literary and cultural studies. A chronology
and an updated guide to further reading serve to provide essential
orientation to a large and complex field. This volume is the ideal
starting point for students new to Conrad's work as well as for
scholars wishing to keep abreast of current issues.
Joseph Conrad's centrality to modern literature is well
established. The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad provides
essential guidance to varied developments in the field of Conrad
studies since the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph
Conrad (1996). The volume's thirteen chapters offer diverse
perspectives on emergent areas of interest, including canon
formation, postcolonialism, gender, critical reception and
adaptation. Likewise, chapters on Conrad's autobiographical
writings, Heart of Darkness and 'The Secret Sharer', consider
recent trends in both literary and cultural studies. A chronology
and an updated guide to further reading serve to provide essential
orientation to a large and complex field. This volume is the ideal
starting point for students new to Conrad's work as well as for
scholars wishing to keep abreast of current issues.
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Lord Jim (Hardcover)
Joseph Conrad; Edited by J.H. Stape, Ernest W. Sullivan II
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R4,014
Discovery Miles 40 140
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Since its first appearance in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in
1899 and 1900, Lord Jim (1900) has been acclaimed as a modernist
masterwork. Its narrative innovations and psychological complexity
make it one of the most influential fictions written in the
twentieth century and it has challenged and stimulated generations
of readers as well as writers on and of fiction. This edition,
established through modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's
novel and its preface in a form more authoritative than any so far
printed. The Introduction situates the novel in Conrad's career and
traces its sources and contemporary reception. The explanatory
notes identify literary and historical references and real-life
places and indicate Conrad's main influences. Glossaries, maps and
illustrations are provided for further context, as well as a new
transcription of 'Tuan Jim: A Sketch', a partial draft of the
novel, and appearing in print for the first time, Conrad's contract
for the book.
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Last Essays (Hardcover, Cambridge)
Joseph Conrad; Edited by Harold Ray Stevens, J.H. Stape; Assisted by Mary Burgoyne, Alexandre Fachard
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R3,989
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Bringing together work composed from 1890 to 1924, the nineteen
pieces collected in the posthumously published Last Essays (1926)
serve as a primer to Conrad's wide interests and to the varieties
of his style. This edition, supported by an extensive textual
apparatus, brings together various prose pieces, including
reminiscences, reviews, essays on the sea and politics, as well as
several miscellaneous items, including his 'Congo Diary' and the
other notebook he kept in Africa in 1890. The introduction situates
these writings in Conrad's career, offers new perspectives on
Conrad in the marketplace and as a writer of occasional prose and
traces the contemporary reception of the volume. The notes explain
literary and historical references, identify real-life places and
indicate Conrad's main sources. Early drafts and notes for several
essays are published here for the first time, making this
authoritative critical edition a major contribution to Conrad
studies.
Serialized in Ford Madox Ford's English Review in 1908-9, A
Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Conrad's
early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as
a seaman. It is also an artistic and political manifesto. This
volume provides the most accurate and scholarly edition available.
Mistakes introduced by typists and earlier publishers have been
corrected to present the text as Conrad intended it. The
introduction traces Conrad's sources and gives the history of
writing and reception. The essay on the text and the apparatus set
out the textual history. The notes explain literary and historical
references, identify places, and gloss foreign terms. Four maps and
a genealogical table supplement this explanatory material. This
edition of A Personal Record, established through modern textual
scholarship, presents Conrad's reminiscences and the volume's two
prefaces in forms more authoritative than any so far printed.
Twenty-six essays in Notes on Life and Letters (1921) present a kaleidoscopic view of Joseph Conrad's literary views and interest in the events of his day, including the Titanic disaster and First World War. The introduction traces the pre-publication history of the essays, and the book's reception, offering new perspectives on the work's relationship to Conrad's other writings.
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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