The Shadow-Line
Joseph Conrad author Jacques Berthoud editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:27th Sep '90
Should be back in stock very soon
A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the increasing sense of isolation that he experiences, the captain crosses the ‘shadow-line’ between youth and adulthood. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, Conrad's novella was written at the start of the Great War when his son Borys was at the Western Front, and can be seen as an attempt to open humanity’s eyes to the qualities needed to face evil and destruction.
ISBN: 9780140180978
Dimensions: 197mm x 131mm x 9mm
Weight: 126g
160 pages