The Shadow Line: A Confession (The Concord Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad)
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2353580
Spine a bit faded. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
x, 133 pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles, decorated endpapers, photographic frontispiece aboard the special service ship Ready. A novel by the author of The Heart of Darkness and numerous nautical stories. 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.
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