The Shadow-Line: A Confession (Vintage Classics)

The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad''s later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow-Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the "shadow-line" between youth and maturity.This brief but intense story is a dramatically fictionalized account of Conrad''s first command as a young sea captain trapped aboard a becalmed, fever-wracked, and seemin...