10% off all books and free delivery over £40
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad

View All Editions

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review Look Inside

About

The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad Synopsis

Since the publication of the Cambridge edition of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, the numerous letters in the nine volumes, many of them published for the first time and many more taken from hard-to-find books and journals, have had a profound influence on writing about Conrad. This selection makes the highlights available in one volume. The letters have been re-edited with shorter footnotes and an emphasis on the latest scholarship. Letters originally written in French or Polish appear only in revised English translations. Among the topics that stand out are Conrad's memories of growing up in Poland and Ukraine, his ideas about fiction, often expressed in precise but sympathetic comments on the work of his friends, the anxieties of war and revolution, his struggle to keep his integrity as a writer, and his lives as a sailor and a family man.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780521191920
Publication date: 3rd September 2015
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 596 pages
Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad
Genres: Diaries, letters and journals
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers