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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 captains 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. The novella is notable for its dual narrative structure.

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise, who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. The Shadow Line tells a story of young sea captain, whose first command brings with it a succession of crises: sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fewer, and his first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the spirit of a previous captain.

"The Shadow Line" - a short novel based at sea - was first published in 1916. It depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of the title representing the threshold of this development. Conrad also extensively uses irony by comparison in the work, with characters such as Captain Giles and the ship’?s "factotum" Ransome used to emphasise strengths and weaknesses of the protagonist.

'A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt before or since.' link title to catalogue entry](exact date?)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. This is indeed a work full of 'sudden passions',…

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 seemingly haunted ship. With no wind in sight and his crew disabled by malaria, the narrator discovers that the medicine necessary to save the sick men is missing and its absence has been deliberately concealed. Meanwhile, his increasingly frightened first…

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A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the increasing sense of isolation that he experiences, the captain crosses the ‘shadow-line’ between youth and adulthood. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, Conrad's novella was written at the start of the Great War when his son Borys was at the Western Front, and can be seen as an attempt to open humanity’s eyes to the qualities needed to face evil and destruction.

Выдающийся английский прозаик Джозеф Конрад (1857-1924) написал около тридцати книг о своих морских путешествиях и приключениях. В повести "Теневая черта" молодой офицер торгового флота, поляк по происхождению, без всяких видимых причин принимает решение списаться с корабля. В его планах - возвращение из Юго-Восточной Азии домой. Но неожиданно ему впервые предлагают командование: судно, капитан которого умер в море, нужно отвести в порт приписки. На борту отправляющегося в Сингапур судна молодой капитан сталкивается с трудностями, обусловленными погодными условиями и тропической лихорадкой.

В повести "Теневая черта" молодой офицер торгового флота, поляк по происхождению, без всяких видимых причин принимает решение списаться с корабля. В его планах - возвращение из Юго-Восточной Азии домой. Но неожиданно ему впервые предлагают командование: судно, капитан которого умер в море, нужно отвести в порт приписки. На борту отправляющегося в Сингапур судна молодой капитан сталкивается с трудностями, обусловленными погодными условиями и тропической лихорадкой.

Теневая черта — та черта, которая отделяет молодость от зрелости. Перейти её — значит уже никогда не стать снова таким как прежде. Для главного героя такой чертой стало первое командование кораблём.

Теневая черта — та черта, которая отделяет молодость от зрелости. Перейти её — значит уже никогда не стать снова таким как прежде. Для главного героя такой чертой стало первое командование кораблём.

Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to the meaning of war through the stimulus of art. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, this masterpiece relates 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 "e;shadow-line"e; between youth and adulthood. The qualities needed to confront the ship's crisis symbolize the very…