Tales of Unrest

The five stories brought together in Tales of Unrest (1898) mark a turning point in the writer's career. Conrad's first short story collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft staking a claim to diverse cultural and fictional territories. The introduction situates the writing of these stories in Conrad's career and discusses their sources and contemporary reception. The explanatory notes identify literary and historical references and real-life places, and indicate influences. Two maps and six illustrations enrich the explanatory matter. The essay on the text lays out the history of the work's composition and publication, details interventions by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors, and explains editorial policy. This edition, established through modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's stories and his preface to the collection in forms more authoritative than any so far printed. An MLA Approved Edition, MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/02/2012
Pages: 378
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781107005501

About the Author
Simmons, Allan H.: - Allan H. Simmons is Professor of English at St Mary's College, Twickenham, London.Stape, J. H.: - J. H. Stape is Research Fellow at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, London and has taught at universities in England, Canada, France and the Far East. Author of The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad (2007) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (1996), he has edited several of Conrad's texts and is co-editor of Conrad's collected letters (Volumes 7 and 9). He has also published on E. M. Forster, William Golding, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, Angus Wilson and Virginia Woolf.