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A Personal Record

Part of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad

Real Author: Joseph Conrad
Editors:
Zdzislaw Najder, Opole University, Poland
J. H. Stape, St Mary's University College. London

Date Published: May 2008
availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521861762

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Serialized in Ford Madox Ford's English Review in 1908–9, A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Conrad's early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a seaman. It is also an artistic and political manifesto. This volume provides the most accurate and scholarly edition available. Mistakes introduced by typists and earlier publishers have been corrected to present the text as Conrad intended it. The introduction traces Conrad's sources and gives the history of writing and reception. The essay on the text and the apparatus set out the textual history. The notes explain literary and historical references, identify places, and gloss foreign terms. Four maps and a genealogical table supplement this explanatory material. This edition of A Personal Record, established through modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's reminiscences and the volume's two prefaces in forms more authoritative than any so far printed.
- The most accurate text available of Conrad's most important autobiographical work
- Exhaustively annotated with explanatory and textual notes
- The Introduction, maps and table help the reader understand the work in its context
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Product details
- Date Published: May 2008
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521861762
- length: 284 pages
- dimensions: 222 x 142 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- contains: 6 b/w illus. 4 maps 1 table
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Chronology
Abbreviations
Introduction
A Personal Record
Author's Note
A Familiar Preface
The Texts: An Essay
A Personal Record
Serialization
Book Editions
'A Familiar Preface'
Copy-texts
Emendation
The 'Author's Note'
The Cambridge Texts
Apparatus
Emendation and Variation
Emendations of Accidentals
End-of-line Word-division
Appendix
Extracts from Tadeusz Bobrowski's Pamietnik
Notes.
Author
Joseph Conrad
Editors
Zdzislaw Najder, Opole University, Poland
Zdzislaw Najder is Professor of English at the University of Opole, Poland.
J. H. Stape, St Mary's University College. London
J. H. Stape is Research Fellow at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, London and has taught at universities in England, Canada, France and the Far East. Author of The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad (2007) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (1996), he has edited several of Conrad's texts and is co-editor of Conrad's collected letters (Volumes 7 and 9). He has also published on E. M. Forster, William Golding, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, Angus Wilson and Virginia Woolf.