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Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad

Author: Joseph Conrad   Series: The Cambridge Edition Of The Letters Of Joseph Conrad

Brings together for the first time the most important and illuminating letters of one of our major writers.

These selected letters taken from the Cambridge edition illuminate Conrad's significance as the Polish-speaking child of political exiles, a deckhand who worked his way up to captain, and one of the major writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Brings together for the first time the most important and illuminating letters of one of our major writers.

These selected letters taken from the Cambridge edition illuminate Conrad's significance as the Polish-speaking child of political exiles, a deckhand who worked his way up to captain, and one of the major writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Description

Since the publication of the Cambridge edition of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, the numerous letters in the nine volumes, many of them published for the first time and many more taken from hard-to-find books and journals, have had a profound influence on writing about Conrad. This selection makes the highlights available in one volume. The letters have been re-edited with shorter footnotes and an emphasis on the latest scholarship. Letters originally written in French or Polish appear only in revised English translations. Among the topics that stand out are Conrad's memories of growing up in Poland and Ukraine, his ideas about fiction, often expressed in precise but sympathetic comments on the work of his friends, the anxieties of war and revolution, his struggle to keep his integrity as a writer, and his lives as a sailor and a family man.

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About the Author

Laurence Davies is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
3rd September 2015
Pages
596
ISBN
9780521191920

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