Last Essays

By:

Joseph Conrad

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Hardback

Series:

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad

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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 The notes explain literary and historical references, identify real-life places and indicate Conrad's main sources.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.

Author Biography:

Harold Ray Stevens is Professor Emeritus of English at McDaniel College. J. H. Stape is Research Fellow at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, London and has taught at universities in England, Canada, France and the Far East. Author of The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad (2007) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (1996), he has edited several of Conrad's texts and is co-editor of Conrad's collected letters (Volumes 7 and 9). He has also published on E. M. Forster, William Golding, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, Angus Wilson and Virginia Woolf.

Release date Australia

December 2nd, 2010

Author

Joseph Conrad

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Assisted by Alexandre Fachard
Assisted by Mary Burgoyne
Edited by Harold Ray Stevens
Edited by J.H. Stape

Illustrations

4 Maps; 8 Halftones, black and white

Pages

536

Series

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad

Dimensions

145x220x35

ISBN-13

9780521190596

Product ID

9786187

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