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The Secret Sharer and Other Stories
Contributor(s): Conrad, Joseph (Author), Peters, John G. (Editor)

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ISBN: 0393936333     ISBN-13: 9780393936339
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Published: August 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2014038354
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5" W x 8.3" L (1.30 lbs) 624 pages
Features: Bibliography, Glossary
 
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Publisher Description:
The stories in this Norton Critical Edition maintain the connection and sequencing that Joseph Conrad saw among them. In his "Author's Note" to 'Twixt Land and Sea, Conrad writes of his two "Calm-pieces" ("The Secret Sharer" and The Shadow-Line) and his two "Storm-pieces" (The Nigger of the "Narcissus" and "Typhoon"). This edition is based on the first English book edition for the stories and the first American edition for the "Author's Note" for The Shadow-Line, "Typhoon," and "The Secret Sharer." The stories are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a note on the texts (including a list of textual emendations), and a preface.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" brings together relevant correspondence and contemporary reviews from both British and American sources. Also included are documents related to Conrad's sources for the stories, among them Charles Arthur Sankey's "Ordeal of the Cutty Sark: A True Story of Mutiny, Murder on the High Seas." To help readers navigate, the editor includes a glossary of nautical terms as well as diagrams of the kinds of ships that appear in the stories.

"Criticism" includes fifteen essays representing both new and established voices. The essays are arranged by story, with the focus on Conrad's major themes--colonialism, narrative, gender, and race. Albert J. Guerard, Lillian Nayder, Mark D. Larabee, Fredric Jameson, F. R. Leavis, and John G. Peters are among the contributors.

A chronology of Conrad's life and work and a selected bibliography are also included.

Contributor Bio(s): Peters, John G.: - John G. Peters is Professor of English at the University of North Texas. He is the author of Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception, The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad, and Conrad and Impressionism. He is editor of Joseph Conrad: The Contemporary Reviews (Volume 2), A Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad, and Conrad in the Public Eye: Biography/Criticism/Publicity.
 
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