End of the Tether - And Other Stories

Informationen zum Autor Philip Davis, Emeritus Professor of Literature and Psychology, was Director of the Centre for Research in Reading, Literature and Society, University of Liverpool. His books includes biographies of George Eliot and Bernard Malamud, and works on Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Wordsworth, and the Victorians. Klappentext This selection of four relatively neglected stories by Conrad -- 'The End of the Tether', ' The Duel', ' The Return', and 'Amy Foster' --remind readers that he is not just the teller of sea stories and tales of imperialist action, but a writer for an age of global terror and individual trauma. Zusammenfassung This selection of four relatively neglected stories by Conrad -- 'The End of the Tether', ' The Duel', ' The Return', and 'Amy Foster' --remind readers that he is not just the teller of sea stories and tales of imperialist action, but a writer for an age of global terror and individual trauma. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Joseph Conrad THE END OF THE TETHER THE DUEL THE RETURN AMY FOSTER Explanatory Notes

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Conrad
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2022
• EAN: 9780192896827
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289682-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / General, 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Classic fiction: general and literary