The Shadow-Line (Penguin Modern Classics)

The Shadow-Line (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Joseph Conrad (Author), Jacques Berthoud (Introduction)

Synopsis

A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the increasing sense of isolation that he experiences, the captain crosses the 'shadow-line' between youth and adulthood. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, Conrad's novella was written at the start of the Great War when his son Borys was at the Western Front, and can be seen as an attempt to open humanity's eyes to the qualities needed to face evil and destruction.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 27 Sep 1990

ISBN 10: 0140180974
ISBN 13: 9780140180978

Author Bio
Joseph Conrad (originally Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.