This Cambridge edition text of The shadow-line, a confession, is now correctly established from the original sources (the Estate of Joseph Conrad) and published with an introduction, textual essay, apparatus, appendices, notes and glossaries. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
General editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Abbreviations and note on editions -- Introduction -- Origins -- Sources -- Reception -- The Shadow-line, a confession -- Author's note -- The Shadow-line -- The texts: an essay -- Preprint documents -- Revision -- Serialization -- Book editions -- Copy-text and emendation -- The 'Author's note' -- The Cambridge texts -- Apparatus -- Emendation and variation -- Emendations of accidentals -- End-of-line word-division -- Textual notes -- Appendices: A. Letters about the Otago, 1888-9; B. The Otago crew-lists, 1888; C. The case of the Jessie Kelly, 1867 ; D. Correspondence from the Metropolitan magazine, 1916 -- Explanatory notes -- Glossary of nautical terms.
Series:
The Cambridge edition of the works of Joseph Conrad
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