Joseph Conrad

The End Of The Tether

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Produktbeschreibung

A taut, searing tale of voyage, conscience, and the price of obedience. A short story that cuts straight to the nerve of duty when the sea and empire pull in opposite directions. The End Of The Tether brings Conrad's maritime sensibility into sharper relief as a brisk, morally charged nautical fiction. Its spare, precise prose reveals the fragility of human resolve amid the pressures of command, loyalty, and the moral call to act. In its compact form, the narrative threads together themes of morality and duty, colonial social critique, and the fallibility that threads through every character. This is classic literature in motion, a work that resonates with readers of literature students and general readers alike, and it sits comfortably beside broader Edwardian era explorations of empire and obligation. Alpha Editions is proud to reissue this gem, long out of print for decades. Restored for today's and future generations, it is more than a reprint-it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure. For readers who relish conrad nautical fiction and keenly observe the human heart, the book offers a concise, accessible entry point into the questions that haunt Heart of Darkness comparisons, while standing firmly within British colonial settings and a tradition of enduring literary craft. A refined addition to university curricula and personal libraries alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 187g
• ISBN-13: 9789354755781
• ISBN-10: 935475578X
• Artikelnr.: 62206882

Autorenporträt

Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors, and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that Conrad's fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events. Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew, among other things, on his native Poland's national experiences and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world-including imperialism and colonialism-and that profoundly explore the human psyche.

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