The Shadow-Line: A Confession (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Conrad, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0140180974 / ISBN 13: 9780140180978

Published by Penguin Classics, 1993

About this Item

Item has stickers attached to cover and or pages that have not been removed to prevent damage. Stains on outside cover inside the book. There are tears on paperback. There is significant highlighting through out the book. Cover Case has some rubbing and edgewear. Access codes, CD's, slipcovers and other accessories may not be included.

Seller Inventory # 2Y6U1A001AH5_ns

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Shadow-Line: A Confession (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140180974
• ISBN 13: 9780140180978
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

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 open humanity’s eyes to the qualities needed to face evil and destruction.

About the Author

Joseph Conrad (originally Józef 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.