Tales of Unrest
1st Edition
Published on 2. February 2012
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-1-107-00550-1 (ISBN)
Description
The five stories brought together in Tales of Unrest (1898) mark a turning point in the writer's career. Conrad's first short story collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft staking a claim to diverse cultural and fictional territories. The introduction situates the writing of these stories in Conrad's career and discusses their sources and contemporary reception. The explanatory notes identify literary and historical references and real-life places, and indicate influences. Two maps and six illustrations enrich the explanatory matter. The essay on the text lays out the history of the work's composition and publication, details interventions by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors, and explains editorial policy. This edition, established through modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's stories and his preface to the collection in forms more authoritative than any so far printed.
Reviews / Votes
'This latest instalment in the Cambridge edition of Conrad's collected works, edited by Allan H. Simmons and J. H. Stape, aims to recover an experience of reading Conrad stripped of the interventions that produced the texts with which we are now familiar ... Conrad studies today, much like Conrad's career then, are in vital, vibrant form.' Andrew Purssell, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 Maps; 8 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
606 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-00550-1 (9781107005501)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Joseph Conrad | Allan H. Simmons | J. H. Stape
Tales of Unrest
E-Book
02/2012
1st Edition
Cambridge University Press
€103.99
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Persons
Allan H. Simmons is Professor of English at St Mary's College, Twickenham, London. 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 and is co-editor of Conrad's collected letters (Volumes 7 and 9). He has also published on E. M. Forster, William Golding, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, Angus Wilson and Virginia Woolf.
Content
General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; Tales of Unrest: Author's note; 'Karain: A Memory'; 'The Idiots'; 'An Outpost of Progress'; 'The Return'; 'The Lagoon'; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Appendices; Explanatory notes.