Tales of Unrest

Informationen zum Autor Allan H. Simmons is Professor of English at St Mary's College, Twickenham, London. 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. Klappentext The five stories brought together in Tales of Unrest (1898) mark a turning point in the writer's career. Conrad's first short story collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft staking a claim to diverse cultural and fictional territories. The introduction situates the writing of these stories in Conrad's career and discusses their sources and contemporary reception. The explanatory notes identify literary and historical references and real-life places, and indicate influences. Two maps and six illustrations enrich the explanatory matter. The essay on the text lays out the history of the work's composition and publication, details interventions by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors, and explains editorial policy. This edition, established through modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's stories and his preface to the collection in forms more authoritative than any so far printed. Zusammenfassung Conrad's first short story collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft staking a claim to diverse cultural and fictional territories. This edition! established through modern textual scholarship! presents the first fully scholarly critical edition of the book. Inhaltsverzeichnis General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; Tales of Unrest: Author's note; 'Karain: A Memory'; 'The Idiots'; 'An Outpost of Progress'; 'The Return'; 'The Lagoon'; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Appendices; Explanatory notes....

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Conrad, Conrad Joseph
• Assisted by: Allan H. Simmons (Editor), Simmons Allan H. (Editor), J. H. Stape (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.02.2012
• EAN: 9781107005501
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00550-1
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad; Cambridge Edition of the Works; The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad; Cambridge Edition of the Works
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Short Stories, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Classic fiction, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Classic fiction: general and literary