The Shadow-Line

Name: The Shadow-Line
Rating: 4.3 (4 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780140180978

by Unknown Author

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(4 ratings)

160 pages1993Penguin ClassicsISBN 9780140180978

Ship captains Fiction English Adventure stories Classic Literature Literature British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Conrad, Joseph, in fiction Sea stories Maritime fiction English literature English fiction

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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.

Publication Details

Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1993
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780140180978

About Unknown Author

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born British novelist, who became a British subject in 1886. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honor. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad