The Shadow-Line
A Confession
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- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
27 September 1990
Summary
A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the increasing sense of isolation that he experiences, the captain crosses the ‘shadow-line’ between youth and adulthood. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, Conrad’s novella was written at the start of the Great War when his son Borys was at the Western Front, and can be seen as an attempt to ope…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140180978 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140180974 |
| Author: | Joseph Conrad, Jacques Berthoud |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 27 September 1990 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (originally J zef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.
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