Volume Eight of Conrad's collected letters covers the last nineteen months of his life (1923-24). Much of this correspondence is unpublished; its editors have had access to the major private collections as well as holdings in public and academic libraries. The letters themselves are accompanied by notes on contexts, allusions, and editorial problems, and prefaced with a general introduction and biographies of the correspondents. Letters to his family written during his visit to the United States are a notable feature of this collection, which is also rich in comments on literary questions, current events, his experiences at sea, the reception of The Rover, and work on his unfinished novel, Suspense.
Volume Eight of Conrad's collected letters covers the last nineteen months of his life (1923-24). Much of this correspondence is unpublished; its editors have had access to the major private collections as well as holdings in public and academic libraries. The letters themselves are accompanied by notes on contexts, allusions, and editorial problems, and prefaced with a general introduction and biographies of the correspondents. Letters to his family written during his visit to the United States are a notable feature of this collection, which is also rich in comments on literary questions, current events, his experiences at sea, the reception of The Rover, and work on his unfinished novel, Suspense.
Acknowledgments; List of holders of letters; Published sources of letters; Other frequently cited works; Chronology, 1923-1924; Introduction to Volume Eight; Conrad's correspondents, 1923-1924; Editorial procedures; Letters; Silent corrections to the text; Indexes.
This volume brings together the complete correspondence dating from the last nineteen months of Conrad's life.
Laurence Davies is Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow and Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. Gene M. Moore is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Amsterdam.
'… the meticuolous editing of the letters themselves, the
supporting documentation - chronology, photographs, biographies of
recipients, holders and sources of the letters, footnotes, indexes,
statements of editorial principles ad the introductions - are
nothing less than superb. … Throughout, they have indeed offered us
'the feast of reason and the floe of soul' through this intimate
contact with the life, mind and art of one of the twentieth
century's greatest writers.' Mara Kalnins, Notes and Queries
'What is so remarkable about these late letters is their energy,
freshness and originality … We turn to the letters, as to the
fiction and essays, in order to experience a vanished world and to
understand better the mind and temperament that transited to
contemporary and future generations those values on which the
health of human society depends … In previous reviews of volumes in
the magnificent Cambridge University Press The Collected Letters of
Joseph Conrad this reviewer has paid tribute to the edition, which
is unrivalled for clarity, precision of presentation, and accuracy
of scholarship. In addition to the meticulous editing of the
letters themselves, the supporting documentation are nothing less
than superb. … The achievement of Laurence Davies and his
co-editors in [this] volume, as in the earlier ones, is beyond
praise.' Mara Kalnins, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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