The Inheritors and The Nature of a Crime

The first authoritative critical edition of two unjustly neglected works produced in collaboration by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford.

Joseph Conrad (Author), Jeremy Hawthorn (Edited by), Max Saunders (With)

9781107016811, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 February 2022

412 pages
22.3 x 14.3 x 3.8 cm, 0.63 kg

This volume offers scholars the first authoritative text of two works produced collaboratively by two of the most important modern British novelists. Long hard to obtain and frequently neglected by critics, each can now be appreciated both in its own right and as part of the two authors' individual oeuvres. This scholarly edition situates both works in the context of the writers' meeting and ongoing collaboration, providing illuminating literary and historical references and detailing the works' composition history and reception in the UK and America. As well as establishing definitive texts of both works and of the authors' prefaces written for the 1924 republication of The Nature of a Crime, this edition also includes Ford's own 1924 account of his collaboration with Conrad on The Inheritors, as well as the text of Ford's 'The Old Story', a hitherto unpublished early draft of the basic plot of The Nature of a Crime.

List of Illustrations
General Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology: Joseph Conrad
Chronology: Ford Madox Ford
Abbreviations and Note on Editions
Introduction
The Inheritors
The Nature of a Crime
Illustrations
The Texts: An Essay
Apparatus
Textual Notes
Appendix 1: Ford Madox Ford on The Inheritors
Appendix 2: 'The Old Story'
Explanatory Notes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]