The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad

Brings together for the first time the most important and illuminating letters of one of our major writers.

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

9780521191920, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 September 2015

596 pages, 16 b/w illus.
22.3 x 14.7 x 3.2 cm, 0.84 kg

Since the publication of the Cambridge edition of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, the numerous letters in the nine volumes, many of them published for the first time and many more taken from hard-to-find books and journals, have had a profound influence on writing about Conrad. This selection makes the highlights available in one volume. The letters have been re-edited with shorter footnotes and an emphasis on the latest scholarship. Letters originally written in French or Polish appear only in revised English translations. Among the topics that stand out are Conrad's memories of growing up in Poland and Ukraine, his ideas about fiction, often expressed in precise but sympathetic comments on the work of his friends, the anxieties of war and revolution, his struggle to keep his integrity as a writer, and his lives as a sailor and a family man.

Introduction
Letters: 1861–1893
1894–1897
1898–1902
1903–1908
1909–1913
1914–1918
1919–1922
1924–1924
Conrad's correspondents.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF], Diaries, letters & journals [BJ]