The Shadow Line: A Confession
by Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co 1917
ISBN/ASIN: 1438283288
Number of pages: 219
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The Shadow Line is a novel by Joseph Conrad, one of his later works, being published in 1917. The story depicts the development of a young man upon taking a boat captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow-line of the title representing the threshold of this development.
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