A Personal Record

Conrad's life in his own words, now edited for scholarly use for the first time.

Joseph Conrad (Author), Zdzislaw Najder (Edited by), J. H. Stape (Edited by)

9780521861762, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 May 2008

284 pages, 6 b/w illus. 4 maps 1 table
22.2 x 14.2 x 2 cm, 0.47 kg

Serialized in Ford Madox Ford's English Review in 1908–9, A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Conrad's early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a seaman. It is also an artistic and political manifesto. This volume provides the most accurate and scholarly edition available. Mistakes introduced by typists and earlier publishers have been corrected to present the text as Conrad intended it. The introduction traces Conrad's sources and gives the history of writing and reception. The essay on the text and the apparatus set out the textual history. The notes explain literary and historical references, identify places, and gloss foreign terms. Four maps and a genealogical table supplement this explanatory material. This edition of A Personal Record, established through modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's reminiscences and the volume's two prefaces in forms more authoritative than any so far printed.

Chronology
Abbreviations
Introduction
A Personal Record
Author's Note
A Familiar Preface
The Texts: An Essay
A Personal Record
Serialization
Book Editions
'A Familiar Preface'
Copy-texts
Emendation
The 'Author's Note'
The Cambridge Texts
Apparatus
Emendation and Variation
Emendations of Accidentals
End-of-line Word-division
Appendix
Extracts from Tadeusz Bobrowski's Pamietnik
Notes.

Subject Areas: Diaries, letters & journals [BJ]