Set of Six

This is the first comprehensive and authoritative critical edition of Conrad's collection of short stories, A Set of Six (1908).

List of contents

List of illustrations; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and Note on Editions; Introduction; A Set of Six; The Texts: An Essay; Apparatus; Textual Notes; Appendices; Explanatory Notes; Glossaries; Maps.

About the author

Allan H. Simmons is Emeritus Professor at St Mary's University, Twickenham. He is General Editor of the Cambridge Edition, for which he has edited a number of volumes, including An Outcast of the Islands (2016) and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (2017). A member of the executive of the Joseph Conrad Society, he is Advisory Editor of The Conradian.Michael Foster was a Senior Lecturer (Retired) at St Mary's University, Twickenham, in English and Applied Linguistics. He was Programme Director for English Language and Literature and for the post-graduate course in Applied Linguistics.Owen Knowles is a Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Hull. An ex-editor of The Conradian, he has also published numerous works on Joseph Conrad, including the Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad (with Gene M. Moore, 2001) and A Conrad Chronology (2014).

Summary

A Set of Six (first published in 1908) is the latest volume in the now well-established and widely- praised Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Following its predecessors, this volume offers scholars an authoritative text, free from the interference of typists, compositors and editors.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Conrad
• Assisted by: Michael Foster (Editor), Owen Knowles (Editor), Allan H Simmons (Editor), Allan H. Simmons (Editor), Simmons Allan H. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781107189133
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18913-3
• No. of pages: 592
• Assisted by: Owen Knowles
• Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad; Cambridge Edition of the Works
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, 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, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form