Tales of Unrest

by Conrad, Joseph; Simmons, Allan H.; Stape, J. H.

• ISBN13: 9781107005501
• ISBN10: 1107005507
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-31
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

The five stories brought together in Tales of Unrest (1898) mark a turning point in the writer's career. Conrad's first short story collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft staking a claim to diverse cultural and fictional territories. The introduction situates the writing of these stories in Conrad's career and discusses their sources and contemporary reception. The explanatory notes identify literary and historical references and real-life places, and indicate influences. Two maps and six illustrations enrich the explanatory matter. The essay on the text lays out the history of the work's composition and publication, details interventions by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors, and explains editorial policy. This edition, established through modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's stories and his preface to the collection in forms more authoritative than any so far printed.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
General Editors' Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Chronology	p. xvii
Abbreviations and Note on Editions	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. xxv
Origins	p. xxvi
Sources	p. xxxv
Reception	p. 1
Tales of Unrest	p. 1
Author's Note	p. 5
Karain: A Memory	p. 11
The Idiots	p. 51
An Outpost of Progress	p. 75
The Return	p. 101
The Lagoon	p. 153
The Texts: an Essay	p. 175
Karain: A Memory	p. 177
The Idiots	p. 186
An Outpost of Progress	p. 198
The Return	p. 207
The Lagoon	p. 217
The Copyright Editions	p. 223
Book Editions	p. 225
Copy-texts and Emendation	p. 235
The 'Author's Note'	p. 238
The Cambridge Texts	p. 242
Apparatus	p. 245
Emendation and Variation	p. 245
Emendations of Accidentals	p. 267
End-of-line Word-division	p. 278
Textual Notes	p. 279
Appendices	p. 285
'My Best Story and Why I Think So' (1906)	p. 285
'Les Sept Innocents de Pleumeur' by Charles Le Goffic	p. 286
Borrowings and Echoes from Maupassant's Bel-Ami in 'The Return'	p. 288
Explanatory Notes	p. 291
Maps	p. 313
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