The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad

This volume completes the Cambridge edition of the correspondence of Joseph Conrad.

Joseph Conrad (Author), Laurence Davies (Edited by), Owen Knowles (Edited by), Gene M. Moore (Edited by), J. H. Stape (Edited by)

9780521881890, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 December 2007

432 pages, 8 b/w illus.
22.3 x 15 x 2.8 cm, 0.66 kg

'… The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad … is exemplary in its attention to the detail, the accuracy of the transcriptions and the dedication of the editorial team to their task …' Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society

The last volume in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad presents over two hundred new letters written between 1892 and 1923. Some are to correspondents who have not previously appeared in the collected letters; others are to family members, friends, and colleagues familiar from earlier volumes. Many of the letters in both categories are substantial enough to justify a recharting of Conrad's work, his friendships, his experiences, and his opinions on such subjects as opera, marriage, editorial tampering, the reading public, British foreign policy, the consolations and the penalties of faith, the Dutch Empire, translating Maupassant, the power of oratory, the revolutions of 1917, and the deficiencies of Ibsen's Ghosts. This volume holds enough surprises to suggest that there can never be a final word on Conrad and includes indexes and further apparatus for the whole series.

Uncollected Letters, 1892–1923: List of plates
Acknowledgments
List of holders of letters
Published sources of letters
Other frequently cited works
Introduction to volume nine
Conrad's correspondents, 1892–1923
Editorial procedures
Letters
Appendix: new texts from holograph
Silent corrections to the text
Index of recipients
Index of names
Revised corrigenda and indexes, volumes 1-7: Revised corrigenda and addenda
Consolidated index of recipients
Revised indexes of names.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB], Diaries, letters & journals [BJ]