Tales of Unrest (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad)
Cambridge University Press, 2/2/2012
EAN 9781107005501, ISBN10: 1107005507
Hardcover, 376 pages, 22.2 x 14.6 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
The five stories brought together in Tales of Unrest (1898) mark a turning point in the writer's career. Conrad's first short story collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft staking a claim to diverse cultural and fictional territories. The introduction situates the writing of these stories in Conrad's career and discusses their sources and contemporary reception. The explanatory notes identify literary and historical references and real-life places, and indicate influences. Two maps and six illustrations enrich the explanatory matter. The essay on the text lays out the history of the work's composition and publication, details interventions by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors, and explains editorial policy. This edition, established through modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's stories and his preface to the collection in forms more authoritative than any so far printed.
General editors' preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Abbreviations and note on editions
Introduction
Tales of Unrest
Author's note
'Karain
A Memory'
'The Idiots'
'An Outpost of Progress'
'The Return'
'The Lagoon'
The texts
an essay
Apparatus
Appendices
Explanatory notes.