Last Essays

di Joseph Conrad (Autore)

Harold Ray Stevens (Curatore)

J. H. Stape (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2010

Bringing together work composed from 1890 to 1924, the nineteen pieces collected in the posthumously published Last Essays (1926) serve as a primer to Conrad's wide interests and to the varieties of his style. This edition, supported by an extensive textual apparatus, brings together various prose pieces, including reminiscences, reviews, essays on the sea and politics, as well as several miscellaneous items, including his 'Congo Diary' and the other notebook he kept in Africa in 1890. The introduction situates these writings in Conrad's career, offers new perspectives on Conrad in the marketplace and as a writer of occasional prose and traces the contemporary reception of the volume. The notes explain literary and historical references, identify real-life places and indicate Conrad's main sources. Early drafts and notes for several essays are published here for the first time, making this authoritative critical edition a major contribution to Conrad studies.

• Autore: Joseph Conrad
• Curatore: Harold Ray Stevens, J. H. Stape
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 536 p.
• Dimensioni: 220 x 145 mm
• Peso: 780 gr.
• EAN: 9780521190596

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