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Suspense

Joseph Conrad author Gene M Moore editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:28th Apr '11

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An authoritative and fully annotated edition of Conrad's last novel.

This edition of Conrad's last novel, established through modern textual scholarship, presents the text in a form more authoritative than any so far printed. This edition includes full textual apparatus, explanatory notes, glossary, illustrations and an informative introduction.Published posthumously in 1925, Suspense is set in Genoa in early 1815. This edition of Conrad's last novel, established through modern textual scholarship, presents the text in a form more authoritative than any so far printed. The introduction situates the novel in Conrad's career and traces its sources and contemporary reception. The explanatory notes explain literary and historical references, identify real-life places and indicate Conrad's main research materials. A glossary of foreign words and phrases enriches the explanatory matter, as do four illustrations and a map. A notebook of Conrad's research for the novel and deleted drafts are published here for the first time. The essay on the text and apparatus lay out the history of the work's composition and publication and detail interventions in the text by Richard Curle, who, as Conrad's de facto literary executor, saw the novel into print, along with typists, compositors and editors.

'Presenting Conrad's 'Mediterranean novel' in an elegant format more correct and authoritative than all previous ones, this magnificent Cambridge edition will enable general readers and scholars fully to appreciate the last creative effort of a Master.' Mario Curreli, Università di Pisa

ISBN: 9780521823531

Dimensions: 223mm x 146mm x 29mm

Weight: 640g

510 pages