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The End of the Tether: and Other Tales
The End of the Tether: and Other Tales

The End of the Tether: and Other Tales

Author: 
Conrad, Joseph; Davis, Philip
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  • This selection features four stories by Conrad never before published together, displaying the full range of his work
  • The text includes, among other stories, 'The End of the Tether', which Henry James thought superior to Heart of Darkness
  • This selection offers a different Conrad, one who is not just the teller of sea stories and tales of imperialist action, but a writer of existential terror on land as well as sea

     
'(Conrad) thought of civilised and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might break and let the unwary sink into fiery depths'
- Bertrand Russell
     
This selection of four tales by Conrad is about radical insecurity: lone human beings involuntarily forced into confrontation with a terrifying universe in which they can never be wholly at home. It leads with 'The End of the Tether' and includes also ' The Duel', ' The Return', and 'Amy Foster' - Sailor, Soldier, Rich Man, Immigrant. These powerful shorter works remind readers that Conrad is not just the teller of sea stories and tales of imperialist action, and not only the author of the ubiquitous 'Heart of Darkness'. This is the Conrad who is master of the terror element - global crisis, individual test, and personal trauma - in modern literature.

Index: 

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Joseph Conrad
   
THE END OF THE TETHER
THE DUEL
THE RETURN
AMY FOSTER

    
Explanatory Notes

About the author: 

Joseph Conrad
    
Edited by Philip Davis, University of Liverpool
     
Philip Davis, Emeritus Professor of Literature and Psychology, was Director of the Centre for Research in Reading, Literature and Society, University of Liverpool. His books includes biographies of George Eliot and Bernard Malamud, and works on Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Wordsworth, and the Victorians.

Product details

ISBN : 9780192896827

Author: 
Conrad, Joseph; Davis, Philip
Pages
368 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 196 mm
Pub date
Nov 2022
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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The End of the Tether: and Other Tales

The End of the Tether: and Other Tales

The End of the Tether: and Other Tales