The Shadow Line: A Confession
by Conrad, Joseph
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1923 Doubleday, Page & Company. The Concord Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Hardcover has navy cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Front cover has reverse blue on gold lettering, and small round gold illustration of a sailing ship below the title panel. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Illustrated endpapers. Tissued frontispiece portrait of Conrad is in excellent condition with complete tissue guard. NOT ex-library. Binding cracked at half-title page; webbing visible, but pages not loose. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners lightly rubbed. Small scratch at top corner of front cover, near spine. Spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed. Pages very lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Name in ink opposite half-title page. Pages clean and unmarked. Spine lightly sunned. 133 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. See our listings for other volumes in this edition.
Synopsis
Joseph Conrad (originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. His parents, ardent Polish patriots, died when he was a child, following their exile for anti-Russian activities, and he came under the protection of his tradition-conscious uncle, Thaddeus Bobrowski, who watched over him for the next twenty-five years. In 1874 Bobrowski conceded to his nephew's passionate desire to go to sea, and Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality and his Master's certificate in the British Merchant Service. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly , in 1895. The following year he married Jessie George and eventually 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. Today Conrad is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in English—his third language. He once described himself as being concerned 'with the ideal value of things, events and people'; in the Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' he defined his task as 'by the power of the written word ... before all, to make you see'.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6277
- Title
- The Shadow Line: A Confession
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Literature,Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Literature;
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