The last volume in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad presents over two hundred new letters written between 1892 and 1923. Some are to correspondents who have not previously appeared in the collected letters; others are to family members, friends, and colleagues familiar from earlier volumes. Many of the letters in both categories are substantial enough to justify a recharting of Conrad's work, his friendships, his experiences, and his opinions on such subjects as opera, marriage, editorial tampering, the reading public, British foreign policy, the consolations and the penalties of faith, the Dutch Empire, translating Maupassant, the power of oratory, the revolutions of 1917, and the deficiencies of Ibsen's Ghosts. This volume holds enough surprises to suggest that there can never be a final word on Conrad and includes indexes and further apparatus for the whole series.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-12-20
Mått150 x 223 x 28 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieThe Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad
Antal sidor432
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521881890

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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. He has also published on E. M. Forster, William Golding, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, Angus Wilson and Virginia Woolf.

Uncollected Letters, 1892–1923: List of plates; Acknowledgments; List of holders of letters; Published sources of letters; Other frequently cited works; Introduction to volume nine; Conrad's correspondents, 1892–1923; Editorial procedures; Letters; Appendix: new texts from holograph; Silent corrections to the text; Index of recipients; Index of names; Revised corrigenda and indexes, volumes 1-7: Revised corrigenda and addenda; Consolidated index of recipients; Revised indexes of names.

'… the meticuolous editing of the letters themselves, the supporting documentation - chronology, photographs, biographies of recipients, holders and sources of the letters, footnotes, indexes, statements of editorial principles ad the introductions - are nothing less than superb. … Throughout, they have indeed offered us 'the feast of reason and the floe of soul' through this intimate contact with the life, mind and art of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.' Mara Kalnins, Notes and Queries