The Shadow-Line: A Confession by Conrad, Joseph

The Shadow-Line: A Confession (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307386533)

Vendor: Joseph Conrad
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Format: Paperback
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The Shadow-Line: A Confession by Conrad, Joseph

The Shadow-Line: A Confession

$16.00
The Shadow-Line: A Confession by Conrad, Joseph

The Shadow-Line: A Confession

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad's later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow-Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the "shadow-line" between youth and maturity.This brief but intense story is a dramatically fictionalized account of Conrad's first command as a young sea captain trapped aboard a becalmed, fever-wracked, and seemingly haunted ship. With no wind in sight and his crew disabled by malaria, the narrator discovers that the medicine necessary to save the sick men is missing and its absence has been deliberately concealed. Meanwhile, his increasingly frightened first mate is convinced that the malignant ghost of the previous captain has cursed them. Suspenseful, atmospheric, and deceptively simple, Conrad's tale of the sea reflects the complex themes of his most famous novels, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.

Author: Joseph Conrad
ISBN-10: 0307386538
ISBN-13: 9780307386533
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2007
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.43d
By Joseph Conrad
By Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in the Russian part of Poland in 1857. His parents were punished by the Russians for their Polish nationalist activities and both died while Conrad was still a child. In 1874 he left Poland for France and in 1878 he began a career with the Britsh merchant navy. He spent nearly twenty years as a sailor before becoming a full-time novelist. He became a British citizen in 1886 and settled permanentlyin England after his marriage in 1896.

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