Tales of Unrest - Couverture souple

Conrad, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0460876562 ISBN 13 : 9780460876568

Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2000

Synopsis

While these share some of the thematic preoccupations and settings of his famous later novels, the stories already demonstrate Conrad's innovative and dramatic power. Exploring themes of betrayal, fear, hope and return, this anthology brings together KARAIN: A MEMORY; THE IDIOTS; AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS; THE RETURN and THE LAGOON. Following their magazine serialisation these made up Conrad's first collection of short stories in 1898, only three years after he abandoned the sea to write professionally.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Joseph Conrad (born; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.

Revue de presse

But for Conrad, the slightest glance, the smallest passing moment, and words themselves, all came weighted with unfathomable implications, signals to us that time is merely the mercy of eternity. --Colm Tóibín

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0460876562
• ISBN 13: 9780460876568
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Fothergill Anthony
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible