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Lorne Bair Rare Books Published: Dent et Fils, First edition, first issue March Original green cloth stamped in brown. Smith 21; Cagle A21a 1. James Cummins Bookseller Published: The Shadow-Line - A Confession. Original pale green cloth decorated in brown. Fore-edge and prelims slightly spotted. Gilt titles on spine a bit dull. Peter Ellis bookseller Published: An attractive copy bound in the original publisher's cloth.
The binding is tight with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy with the publisher's page "Modern Fiction" catalogue bound into the back of the book.. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. First edition in first issue binding.
Original green cloth binding with black and gilt lettering spine and black lettering and design front cover. Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. Later novel, of introspection; viewed by some as a comment on the First World War; by others as supernatural.
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Light wear, no jacket, endsheets foxed; ink code on verso of free ensheet; quite nice. The Shadow Line Joseph Conrad Russell Books Ltd Condition: Page ridges and first few leaves a bit foxed, ink name on front endpaper, front hinge just starting - spine leans slightly forward. We have more books available by this author!. A novel by the author of The Heart of Darkness and numerous nautical stories.
Octavo [19 cm] Light green cloth with gilt and brown ink stamped titles, decorative borders and nautical designs on the spine and front cover. The spine is rolled and heavily darkened. The gilt stamped title on the spine has faded.
The Shadow Line by Conrad, Joseph
The underlying front board is exposed along the fore edge, and there is a thin, 1" tall loss from the fore edge of the front board as well. The cloth at the head of the spine is frayed, and there are numerous short tears in the cloth at the foot of the spine. The front hinge is weak, and there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English author and master mariner, famous for writing Heart of Darkness in This copy has visible but minimal wear, has no dust jacket, appears to have been very lightly read, is in Excellent Condition Overall.
Special Notes on this book: The novel first appeared serially in The English Review from September to March , inclusive. Books By Russ Condition: A Confession Joseph Conrad First edition, first issue of this Conrad novel, based at sea. Octavo, original cloth, with the Aldine House logo to the front panel. In near fine condition with light rubbing.
The novella is notable for its dual narrative structure. The full, subtitled title of the novel is The Shadow-Line, A Confession, which immediately alerts the reader to the retrospective nature of the novella. The ironic constructions following from the conflict between the 'young' protagonist who is never named and the 'old' drive much of the underlying points of the novella, namely the nature of wisdom, experience and maturity. Conrad also extensively uses irony by comparison in the work, with characters such as Captain Giles and the ship's 'factotum' Ransome used to emphasise strengths and weaknesses of the protagonist.
One reviewer called it a war story. There is some truth in this, in the sense that it was written during WW1, and it is dedicated to Conrad's son, who went to war for England. That's the ultimate enforcement of adulthood. The narrator has just abandoned a good job as mate on a ship under local flag, sailing the Malay Archipelago, for no good reason but out of youthful rashness.
That had been the time that gave us treasures like the Lingard trilogy and Lord Jim. Surprisingly, he is offered a golden opportunity: The previous captain has died and a replacement is needed.
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The chief mate is apparently a bit off his rockers, that's why an outsider must be called in to fill the captain vacancy. The job is plagued with all sorts of threatening trouble: Our freshman captain has to cross the shadow line from youth to adulthood, to become a responsible leader. Conrad tells us of his, presumably, own maturing process with surprising lightness. This is not pondering Marlow of the early phase, this is a different voice, this is somebody who can stand outside himself and watch and take himself less than dead serious.
Nonsense, this ghost is just the hallucination of a sick sailor, Conrad put no credibility into it at all. He was a rational person. But good enough for 5 stars it is any day.
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It is short, beautiful and very accessible, and deserves to be read. It is about growing up, growing into ones self and conscience, with the understanding that sometimes external events come along to force the maturation process nearly overnight, and if you are lucky, you swim. As he states in the author's note that has accompanied the text since the second edition, his mind was on his son Borys and his comrades who were off fighting in World War I at the time.
The landscape of his story, though, comes out of his own youthful experience at sea. He has decided that despite friendships, his love of the sea and his skills, that there is an absence of meaning to his career and he is emphatically throwing it off at a South Seas port with the intention of going home.
But then he is made the one offer he cannot resist: The narrator quickly pushes to get back out on the open seas despite the fact that the first mate seems to be growing increasingly sick. Suddenly stuck out where he had originally wanted to be, the narrator is faced with the spread of illness across the crew and the discovery that his deceased predecessor had destroyed the ship's pharmacy in his derangement.
The responsibility of the situation would be terrible in any circumstances, much less a first command. The Penguin edition contains a lengthy critical introduction ridden with spoilers, by the way , an annotated critical bibliography, and text notes. The latter define technical and arcane terms but also note where the story dovetails with facts of Conrad's own life. All of these are useful, but the novel itself is what is valuable here, with its memorable characters and honest descriptive passages of both exterior and interior worlds.
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Interesting and quick read for what is considered one of Conrad's greatest works. Written language of the day makes the biography somewhat difficult to get in to, but after awhile the story picks up and becomes quite entertaining.
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