The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad

by Conrad, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780521881890
• ISBN10: 0521881897
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-29
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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

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