The Shadow-Line
by Joseph Conrad, David Horovitch
3.8
(10 ratings)192 pages1916Oxford University Press, USAISBN 9780192801708
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About this book
The story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him with a ship becalmed in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the sense of isolation that his position imposes, the captain crosses the "shadow-line" between youth and adulthood.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 1916
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN
- 9780192801708
- Language
- en
About Joseph Conrad
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
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