A Set of Six (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Joseph Conrad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330866681 ISBN 13: 9781330866689

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2016

Synopsis

Excerpt from A Set of Six

"The Duel," the longest story in this volume, has appeared already some years ago under the title "The Point of Honor" in the form of a small book adorned by a few clever illustrations; but at my urgent request Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. have agreed to reprint it in its proper place in the "Set of Six," under the title it bore in the first English edition.

I don't think there is anything objectionable in this revival. On the contrary. the choice lay between restoring that tale to its proper home and surroundings and the cutting down of the "Set of Six" to a "Set of Five."

But the "Set of Six," if not an organic whole, is a homogeneous group written with a certain unity of method. Moreover "The Duel" is, so far, my only attempt at historical fiction: as earnest an attempt as if the work were ten times its size. To see it dropped out of its place in the collection would have been very painful to my parental feelings.

The return of this tale to the light of day has made me happy.

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Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish novelist who wrote in English, after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honour. Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330866681
• ISBN 13: 9781330866689
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 386