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A set of six / Joseph Conrad ; edited by Allan H. Simmons and Michael Foster ; introduction and notes by Owen Knowles and Allan H. Simmons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924, author.
- Series:
- The Cambridge edition of the works of Joseph Conrad
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (lxxiv, 517 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- A Set of Six (1908) is one of Conrad's most versatile and varied compositions, embracing diverse interests and settings, multiple tonal qualities and a medley of short-story forms (ranging from the novella in 'The Duel' to the anecdotal tale in 'The Informer'). The volume's wide-ranging introduction offers a careful evaluation of the origins and sources of the individual stories, while also measuring their early reception as a published collection. Explanatory notes clarify literary and historical references, identify real-life places and people, and indicate borrowings and Gallicisms. The lengthy textual essay and its accompanying apparatus lay out the history of composition and publication, detailing interventions made by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors. Also included are appendices, allowing the reader first-hand access to Conrad's source material; glossaries of nautical and foreign terms; and illustrations in the form of maps and reproductions of early drafts. By returning to (and respecting) Conrad's own early manuscript and typescript forms, this edition presents the collection and its preface in a form more authoritative than any so far printed.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series Page
- Half Title
- Title page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Note on Editions
- Introduction
- Origins
- Sources
- Reception
- A Set of Six
- Note to the First American Edition
- Author's Note
- Gaspar Ruiz
- The Informer
- The Brute
- An Anarchist
- The Duel
- Il Conde
- The Texts: An Essay
- Book Editions
- Emendation
- The 'Note to the First American Edition'
- The 'Author's Note'
- The Cambridge Texts
- APPARATUS
- Emendation and Variation
- Emendations of Accidentals
- End-of-Line Word-Division
- Textual Notes
- Appendices
- A Conrad's Sources for 'Gaspar Ruiz'
- B Conrad's Sources for 'The Duel'
- C 'Author's Note' to Youth and Gaspar Ruiz
- Explanatory Notes
- Glossaries
- Foreign Words and Phrases
- Nautical Terms
- Maps.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Aug 2021).
- ISBN:
- 1-108-10298-0
- 1-316-98699-3
- OCLC:
- 1276856409
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