TY - BOOK ID - 112157098 TI - A set of six AU - Conrad, Joseph AU - Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor AU - Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore AU - Konrad, Dzhozef AU - Kʻang-la-te AU - Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph AU - Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad AU - -Kʻonradŭ, Josep AU - Kʻonradŭ, Chosep AU - Kʻolladŭ, Josep AU - Konrad, Dzd. AU - Conrad, Józef AU - קונראד, ג׳וזף AU - קונראד, ג׳וסף AU - קונרד, ג׳וזף AU - קונרד, ג׳וזף AU - קונרד, יוסף AU - 康拉德 AU - Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor AU - Konrant, Tzozeph AU - Simmons, Allan AU - Foster, Michael AU - Knowles, Owen AU - Simmons, Allan H. PY - 2021 SN - 9781107189133 9781316986998 9781316638781 1107189136 1316638782 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Conrad, Joseph, KW - Literature, Victorian KW - Victorian literature KW - Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, KW - Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, KW - Konrad, Dzhozef, KW - Kʻang-la-te, KW - Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, KW - Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, KW - Kʻonradŭ, Josep, KW - Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, KW - Kʻolladŭ, Josep, KW - Konrad, Dzd. KW - Conrad, Józef, KW - קונראד, ג׳וזף, KW - קונראד, ג׳וסף KW - קונרד, ג׳וזף KW - קונרד, ג׳וזף, KW - קונרד, יוסף KW - 康拉德, KW - Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, KW - Konrant, Tzozeph, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:112157098 AB - "Conrad wrote the stories that make up A Set of Six (1908) between late 1904, in the immediate wake of Nostromo (1904), and the spring of 1907, when he was attending to page proofs of The Secret Agent (1907). Yet another story - never finished if, indeed, ever begun - about 'a bomb in a hotel' also hovered in his mind at this time. As Conrad acknowledged in his brief preface to the volume's first American edition (1915), the stories, 'if not an organic whole', none the less constitute 'a homogeneous group written with a certain unity of method' (5.10-11), concentrated on incident and action (Letters, IV, 29-30) and were all based, he claimed, upon real-life events. Ranging widely in their geographical settings and time periods, the six tales further explore the preoccupations of his longer fictions - perhaps most broadly, the multifarious nature and manifestations of power and violence, major themes in Nostromo and central to The Secret Agent, both of which interrupted and dislodged from his desk the long-evolving Chance (1914)"-- ER -