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  • The Shadow Line: A Confession

    Joseph Conrad

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 9, 2015)
    Only the young have such moments. I don't mean the very young. No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.
  • The Shadow-Line A Confession

    Joseph Conrad

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, March 1, 2018)
    Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. This is indeed a work full of "sudden passions", in which Conrad is able to show how the full intensity of existence can be experienced by the man who, in the words of the older Captain Giles, is prepared to "stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience." A subtle and penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood, The Shadow-Line investigates varieties of masculinity and desire in a subtext that counters the tale's seemingly conventional surface. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
  • The Shadow Line: A Confession

    Joseph Conrad, Alex Struik

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Nov. 27, 2012)
    The Shadow-Line is a novella based at sea by Joseph Conrad. The novella depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of the title representing the threshold of this development. It has often been cited as a metaphor of the First World War, given its timing and references to a long struggle, the importance of camaraderie, etc. This viewpoint may also be reinforced by the knowledge that Conrad's elder son, Borys, was wounded in the First World War. The novella is dedicated to his son Borys. Joseph Conrad (born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (3 December 1857 ā€“ 3 August 1924) was a Polish novelist who wrote in English, after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties . He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.
  • The Shadow Line: A Confession

    Joseph Conrad, Paul A. Boer Sr.

    Paperback (Independently published, Aug. 13, 2019)
    The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first published in 1916 as a serial in New York's Metropolitan Magazine (Septemberā€”October) in the English Review (September 1916-March 1917) and published in book form in 1917 in the UK (March) and America (April). The novella depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of the title representing the threshold of this development. 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. The novella has often been cited as a metaphor of the First World War, given its timing and references to a long struggle, the importance of camaraderie, etc. This viewpoint may also be reinforced by the knowledge that Conrad's elder son, Borys, was wounded in the First World War. Others however see the novel as having a strong supernatural influence, referring to various plot-lines in the novella such as the 'ghost' of the previous captain potentially cursing the ship, and the madness of first mate Mr Burns. Conrad himself, however, denied this link in his 'Author's Note' (1920), claiming that although critics had attempted to show this link, "The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is." Andrzej Wajda has made a 1976 film adaptation of the novel under its Polish title - Smuga cienia. In the 2004 novel (trs 2005) House of Paper by Carlos Maria Dominguez the plot is driven by the narrator's quest for the person who sent a copy of The Shadow Line to a recently deceased colleague. Joseph Conrad (Polish:; born JĆ³zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 ā€“ 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. 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. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors, and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that Conrad's fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events. Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew, among other things, on his native Poland's national experiences and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated worldā€”including imperialism and colonialismā€”and that profoundly explore the human psyche.
  • Shadow Line: A Confession

    Joseph Conrad

    Hardcover (Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, Dec. 3, 1951)
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  • The Shadow-Line: A Confession

    Joseph Conrad, Will Jonson

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 19, 2015)
    The novella is notable for its dual narrative structure. The full, subtitled title of the novel is ā€˜The Shadow-Line, A Confessionā€™, which immediately alerts the reader to the retrospective nature of the novella. The ironic constructions following from the conflict between the 'young' protago-nist (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.
  • The Shadow Line: A Confession

    Joseph Conrad

    eBook (Good Press, Nov. 21, 2019)
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  • The Shadow Line A Confession

    Joseph Conrad

    Hardcover (Wentworth Press, March 3, 2019)
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  • The Shadow Line: A Confession

    Joseph Conrad

    Paperback (Independently published, July 10, 2020)
    Conradā€™s autobiographical novella of a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mateā€™s fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine. A suspenseful sea story of a young man in a defining moment of his life, when the indistinct line separating an inexperienced boy from a mature man becomes perfectly clear, ā€œThe Shadow-Lineā€ brims with intense existence, straining responsibility, and threatened principles in a probing study of masculinity.
  • The Shadow Line: A Confession

    Joseph Conrad

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Sept. 6, 2017)
    In this fictionalized autobiography, Conrad expands on his first experience as captain of a ship. Young and hopeful, the young captain accepts the promotion, unaware to the trials that lay ahead. The last captain died on the ship, was hastily buried, and the command position a hasty decision. With a first mate gone half mad, malaria taking in the entire crew, a lack of medicine and no wind to get the ship moving, the young captain will face the shadow line that divides youth and maturity.
  • The Shadow Line 1917

    Joseph Conrad

    Leather Bound (Generic, Sept. 3, 2019)
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  • The Shadow-Line: A Confession

    Joseph Conrad

    Paperback (Lector House, July 8, 2019)
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