The shadow line
a confession
by Joseph Conrad
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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.
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The Shadow-Line: A Confession (Oxford World's Classics)
February 27, 2004, Oxford University Press, USA
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The shadow-line: a confession
1985, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
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Novel.
"First issue of this edition, March 1917"--t.p. verso.
Includes publisher's list.
Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the University of Western Ontario, D.B. Weldon Library, London. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1996.
227, 18 p. ; 20 cm.
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