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The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
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Description for The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad
hardcover. This seventh volume of the collected letters of Joseph Conrad covers Conrad's letters during the period 1920-22. Editor(s): Davies, Laurence; Stape, J. H. (Universite Versailles/Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines). Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad. Num Pages: 722 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BG; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1007.
This penultimate volume of Conrad's collected letters ends soon after his 65th birthday. Over the previous three years, Conrad wrote The Rover, struggled with Suspense, translated The Book of Job (a Polish comedy), collaborated with J. B. Pinker on a cinematic treatment of 'Gaspar Ruiz', and worked by himself on adapting The Secret Agent for the London stage. He saw the publication of The Rescue, Notes on Life and Letters, and the Doubleday/Heinemann collected edition, most of whose volumes had new Author's Notes. Especially in North America, the collected edition strengthened his reputation as the leading English-language novelist of his ... Read more
This penultimate volume of Conrad's collected letters ends soon after his 65th birthday. Over the previous three years, Conrad wrote The Rover, struggled with Suspense, translated The Book of Job (a Polish comedy), collaborated with J. B. Pinker on a cinematic treatment of 'Gaspar Ruiz', and worked by himself on adapting The Secret Agent for the London stage. He saw the publication of The Rescue, Notes on Life and Letters, and the Doubleday/Heinemann collected edition, most of whose volumes had new Author's Notes. Especially in North America, the collected edition strengthened his reputation as the leading English-language novelist of his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
722
Condition
New
Series
The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad
Number of Pages
722
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521561969
SKU
V9780521561969
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About Joseph Conrad
Laurence Davies is Research Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College and co-author of Cunninghame Graham: A Critical Biography. 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad
"This volume proves the enduring value of good editorial scholarship.... The scrupulous attention to the minutiae of these letters ... will enable scholars for generations to come to explore the world Conrad inhabited in ways previously impossible." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920