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Author:

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924, author.

Title:

A set of six / Joseph Conrad ; edited by Allan H. Simmons and Michael Foster ; introduction and notes by Owen Knowles and Allan H. Simmons.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

lxxiv, 517 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Conrad, Joseph,--1857-1924.
English literature--19th century.

Other Authors:

Simmons, Allan, 1955- editor. writer of introduction., editor.
Foster, Michael, editor, author of introduction
Knowles, Owen, author of introduction

Notes:

Includes bibliographic information.

Contents:

A SET OF SIX : Note to the first American edition -- Authors Note -- Gaspar Ruiz -- The Informer -- The Brute -- An Anarchist -- The Duel -- Il Conde -- THE TEXTS: AN ESSAY : An Anarchist -- The Informer -- The Brute -- Il Conde -- The Duel -- Book Editions -- Emendation -- The 'Note to the First American Edition' -- The 'Author's Note' -- The Cambridge Texts -- APPARATUS : Emendation and Variation -- Emendations of Accidentals -- End-of-Line Word-Division -- TEXTUAL NOTES : Appendices: Conrad's Sources for 'Gaspar Ruiz' ; Conrad's Sources for 'The Duel' ; 'Author's Note' to Youth and Gaspar Ruiz -- Explanatory Notes -- Glossaries: Foreign Words and Phrases ; Nautical Terms -- Maps.

Summary:

"Conrad wrote the stories that make up A Set of Six (1908) between late 1904, in the immediate wake of Nostromo (1904), and the spring of 1907, when he was attending to page proofs of The Secret Agent (1907). Yet another story - never finished if, indeed, ever begun - about 'a bomb in a hotel' also hovered in his mind at this time. As Conrad acknowledged in his brief preface to the volume's first American edition (1915), the stories, 'if not an organic whole', none the less constitute 'a homogeneous group written with a certain unity of method' (5.10-11), concentrated on incident and action (Letters, IV, 29-30) and were all based, he claimed, upon real-life events. Ranging widely in their geographical settings and time periods, the six tales further explore the preoccupations of his longer fictions - perhaps most broadly, the multifarious nature and manifestations of power and violence, major themes in Nostromo and central to The Secret Agent, both of which interrupted and dislodged from his desk the long-evolving Chance (1914)"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

The Cambridge edition of the works of Joseph Conrad
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Works. 1990.

ISBN:

1316638782
9781316638781
1107189136
9781107189133

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1240306497

LCCN:

2021002046

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)