The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (Author), Frederick Karl (Edited by), Laurence Davies (Edited by)

9780521242165, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 September 1983

512 pages
21.6 x 13.8 x 2.9 cm, 0.8 kg

"One of the advantages of this new collection -- besides that of providing accurate texts of unpublished correspondence and of the many letters that have long been available in unreliable editions -- is that it enables us to appreciate the extent to which some of Conrad's letters are themselves part of his achievement at a prose writer." Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books

The first of a projected eight-volume edition of all the surviving letters of Joseph Conrad. Volume One opens with a child, not yet four, writing to comfort his imprisoned father and closes with an author, exile, and master mariner just turned forty.

List of plates
Maps
General editor's acknowledgements
List of holders of leters
Published sources of letters
Chronology, 1857–1897
General editor's introduction
Introduction to volume one
Conrad's correspondents, 1861–1897
Letters
Corrections to the text
Index.

Subject Areas: Biography: general [BG]