21V Joseph Conrad MEMORIAL EDITION COLLECTED WORKS OF JOSEPH CONRAD 1925 Limited Edition Uniformly Bound Literature Nautical Polish Duty Honor Human Spirit Chance Victory Arrow of Gold Typhoon Rescue Rover Inheritors Lord Jim Youth Romance Nostromo Almayers Folly Secret Agent
Title: Memorial Edition Collected Works of Joseph Conrad
Author: Joseph Conrad - Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish novelist who wrote in English, after settling in England.

Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honor. Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors.

Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the French and later the British Merchant Navy to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a worldwide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul.

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
City: Garden City, New York
Year: 1925
Printing Information: Limited Edition
Binding Style: Hardcover
Number of Volumes: 21 Full Set: No
Width: 6" Height: 8.75"
Book Details: This twenty-one volume limited edition set of the Works of Joseph Conrad is uniformly bound in blue cloth with gilt embellishment and facsimile of Conrad’s signature to the front board. Leather and gilt spine labels have been mounted over paper ones. Each volume contains a tissue-guarded frontispiece. These volumes are from the Memorial Edition, numbered 174 of 499. The Introduction to Volume I was written by William McFee. Titles included in this collection are:

Almayer’s Folly
The Inheritors
An Outcast of the Islands
The Nigger of the Narcissus
The Shadow Line
Lord Jim
Typhoon
Youth
Romance
Nostromo
The Secret Agent
A Set of Six
Under Western Eyes
A Personal Record
The Mirror of the Sea
‘Twixt Land and Sea
Chance
Within the Tides
Tales of Unrest
Victory
The Arrow of Gold
The Rescue
Notes on Life and Letters
The Rover
Suspense
Condition / Notes: This antique set shows well with some typical indications of age and wear including shelfwear. The spine label on Vol. 1 is separating from the spine. The bindings are firm, and text is clear and crisp through mild age toning. This set lacks volumes 22 and 23.

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