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Book Synopsis The Shadow-Line Annotated by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book The Shadow-Line Annotated written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first published in 1916 as a serial in New York's Metropolitan Magazine (September-October) in the English Review (September 1916-March 1917) and published in book form in 1917 in the UK (March) and America (April). The novella depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of the title representing the threshold of this development.The novella is notable for its dual narrative structure. The full, subtitled title of the novel is The Shadow-Line, A Confession, which immediately alerts the reader to the retrospective nature of the novella. The ironic constructions following from the conflict between the 'young' protagonist (who is never named) and the 'old' drive much of the underlying points of the novella, namely the nature of wisdom, experience and maturity. Conrad also extensively uses irony by comparison in the work, with characters such as Captain Giles and the ship's 'factotum' Ransome used to emphasise strengths and weaknesses of the protagonist.
Download or read book The Shadow Lines written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families -- one English, one Bengali -- as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.
Download or read book The Shadow-Line written by Joseph Conrad and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. This is indeed a work full of "sudden passions," in which Conrad is able to show how the full intensity of existence can be experienced by the man who, in the words of the older Captain Giles, is prepared to "stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience." A subtle and penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood, The Shadow-Line investigates varieties of masculinity and desire in a subtext that counters the tale's seemingly conventional surface.
Book Synopsis The Shadow Line A Confession by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book The Shadow Line A Confession written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915.
Download or read book The Shadow Line written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadow Line turned into one of the closing pieces of lengthy prose that Joseph Conrad ever produced. At 30,000 words, it is an extended piece, however as to whether or not it's miles sincerely an extended quick story or a quick novel is up for debate. The trendy consensus is that, although the narrative is a ways much less complex than that of the typical Conrad novel, its thematic troubles are extra complicated than those who the everyday brief tale can usually manage.The Shadow Line turned into at the start posted in serial shape in Metropolitan Magazine and English Review in 1916, earlier than appearing in book shape a yr. later. Like so much of Conrad's fiction, the narrative became stimulated through his personal stories at sea. By the time he wrote The Shadow Line, the unique example recalled inside the story became nearly three a long time at the back of him. In the palms of Conrad's fertile creativeness, something factual account can also have taken vicinity has been become a test of a young captain's mettle as he's besieged by way of a team undone via a fever and a first mate who has long past mad from the delusion that the deliver is haunted through the evil spirit of its former skipper.Such a fixed-up has all of the earmarks of a rousing story of obsession and madness, leading to the ambiguous considerations of the nature of precise and evil that permeate the paintings of Conrad. While pretty a bit of incident and meaning is packed into The Shadow Line, in the long run the ending is as an alternative honest and serves to turn the frequently weird activities into a simple coming of age story about the maturation of a young seaman into a skilled leader of guys.
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Book Synopsis The Shadow Line (Annotated) by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book The Shadow Line (Annotated) written by Joseph Conrad and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first published in 1916 as a serial in New York's Metropolitan Magazine (September-October) in the English Review (September 1916-March 1917) and published in book form in 1917 in the UK (March) and America (April). The novella depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of the title representing the threshold of this development.
Download or read book Pale Fire written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع. This book was released on 2024-02-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.
Book Synopsis The Shadow of the Wind by : Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Download or read book The Shadow of the Wind written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
Download or read book The Big Smoke written by Adrian Matejka and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suite of poems examining the myth and history of the legendary prizefighter Jack Johnson—a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award—from the author, with Youssef Daoudi, of the graphic novel Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century The legendary Jack Johnson (1878–1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent segregationism of Jim Crow, challenging white boxers—and white America—to become the first African-American heavyweight world champion. The Big Smoke, Adrian Matejka’s third work of poetry, follows the fighter’s journey from poverty to the most coveted title in sports through the multi-layered voices of Johnson and the white women he brazenly loved. Matejka’s book is part historic reclamation and part interrogation of Johnson’s complicated legacy, one that often misremembers the magnetic man behind the myth.
Book Synopsis Dreaming in Cuban by : Cristina García
Download or read book Dreaming in Cuban written by Cristina García and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
Book Synopsis The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose by : T. S. Eliot
Download or read book The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose written by T. S. Eliot and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised and in paperback for the first time, this definitive, annotated edition of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land "includes as a bonus""all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing his masterpiece. Enriched with period photographs, a London map of cited locations, groundbreaking information on the origins of the work, and full annotations, the volume is itself a landmark in literary history. "More than any previous editor, Rainey provides the reader with every resource that might help explain the genesis and significance of the poem. . . . The most imaginative and useful edition of "The Waste Land" ever published."--Adam Kirsch, "New Criterion ""For the student or for anyone who wants to get the maximum amount of information out of a foundational modernist work, this is the best available edition."--"Publishers Weekly"
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Book Synopsis The Shadow Line by : Joseph Joseph Conrad
Download or read book The Shadow Line written by Joseph Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-29 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator begins his story by discussing youth and life. He talks about how he left the ship he was a crew member of and upon coming to the shore found shelter at Officers' Home. There he is greeted by a displeased steward. He meets other seamen staying there, among whom he gets close to Captain Giles. One night, he and Captain Giles overhear Hamilton, another seaman staying there, talking about the narrator and how he is better for some position than him. Captain Giles reveals to the narrator that he noticed the steward behaving strangely when some letters arrive and tries to persuade the narrator to investigate. He is reluctant but when he sees the steward he can't help but press him about it. It turns out that Captain Giles was right and the letter was sent to the narrator asking him to come to the Harbour Office for an interview about becoming a captain of a ship.
Book Synopsis The Shadow-Line (Fully New Annotated Edition) by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book The Shadow-Line (Fully New Annotated Edition) written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-24 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a young captain who is hastily given his first command of a ,,ghost" ship. It's about a first mate who will lose his mind to madness as the malaria sickness spreads without medicine. This book is about a calm sea with not a sigh of a wind to move the ship. The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad describes that demarcation line in the journey of life that divides the happy, bright, fantastic and irresponsible youth with the darker ages of manhood. Conrad goes on to delineate this vision as being beyond the ,,charm and innocence of illusions". It isn't an elaborate story, but one that explores that moment, that shadow-line between youth and adulthood. It is a story about maturity, wisdom, experience. And, even though Conrad himself tells us this story is not about the supernatural, a curse and the first captain who died before Conrad took command, tells us otherwise.
Download or read book The Lagoon written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The white man, leaning with both arms over the roof of the little house in the stern of the boat, said to the steersman-"We will pass the night in Arsat's clearing. It is late."The Malay only grunted, and went on looking fixedly at the river. The white man rested his chin on his crossed arms and gazed at the wake of the boat. At the end of the straight avenue of forests cut by the intense glitter of the river, the sun appeared unclouded and dazzling, poised low over the water that shone smoothly like a band of metal. The forests, sombre and dull, stood motionless and silent on each side of the broad stream. At the foot of big, towering trees, trunkless nipa palms rose from the mud of the bank, in bunches of leaves enormous and heavy, that hung unstirring over the brown swirl of eddies. In the stillness of the air every tree, every leaf, every bough, every tendril of creeper and every petal of minute blossoms seemed to have been bewitched into an immobility perfect and final. Nothing moved on the river but the eight paddles that rose flashing regularly, dipped together with a single splash; while the steersman swept right and left with a periodic and sudden flourish of his blade describing a glinting semicircle above his head. The churned-up water frothed alongside with a confused murmur. And the white man's canoe, advancing upstream in the short-lived disturbance of its own making, seemed to enter the portals of a land from which the very memory of motion had forever departed.
Download or read book The Shadow Line written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
