Almayer's Folly
A Story of an Eastern River
Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 18 August 1994
- ISBN 9780521432054
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages326 pages
- Size 216x140x22 mm
- Weight 560 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 b/w illus. 2 maps 0
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Short description:
This edition, first published in 1994, presents Joseph Conrad's first novel freed from seven layers of publishers' and typists' corruptions.
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Set in eastern Borneo during the 1880s, Almayer's Folley recreates the conflicts of imperial Europe with the colonised East Indies through Joseph Conrad's story of Kaspar Almayer's personal tragedy: his loss of both his daughter of mixed race to her native lover and his dream of finding enough gold to return to Amsterdam in triumph. The introduction gives the history of the composition over almost five years as Conrad went to the Congo, Australia, the Ukraine, Belgium, Switzerland, and France as a seaman and on holiday. The novel has suffered seven layers of unauthorised intervention by typists and publishers, as set out in the essay on the text and the apparatus. The notes explain Malay terms and historical references, and there are two regional maps. This is the text of Almayer's Folley, established through modern textual scholarship, as Conrad would have like it to have appeared in 1895.
"...Almayer's Folly remains a provocative literary document, both for the psychologically compelling story it tells and the artistic story it foretells." English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River; The texts: an essay, Almayer's Folly; The author's note; The Cambridge text; Apparatus; Rejected page of manuscript: Chapter 11; Notes.
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