An Outcast of the Islands

The first comprehensive and authoritative critical edition of Conrad's second novel, An Outcast of the Islands (1896).

List of contents

General editors' preface; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; An Outcast of the Islands; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Map.

About the author

Allan H. Simmons is Professor of English Literature at St Mary's University, Twickenham, and is the author of Joseph Conrad (2006) and Conrad's Heart of Darkness (2007). He has edited Conrad in Context (2009) and Joseph Conrad: The Contemporary Reviews, Volume 1 (2012), and co-edited Lord Jim and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' and Other Stories (2007). He is also the General Editor of The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK).

Summary

An Outcast of the Islands is the latest volume in the widely praised Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Like its predecessors in this series, this volume offers scholars an authoritative text, free from the interference of early typists, compositors and editors, and comprehensive textual and explanatory notes.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Conrad, Conrad Joseph
• Assisted by: Allan Simmons (Editor), Allan H Simmons (Editor), Allan H. Simmons (Editor), Simmons Allan H. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781107126442
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12644-2
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 222 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works; The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad; Cambridge Edition of the Works
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form