The Shadow-Line

A Coming of Age Story at Sea.

“The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavor, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink. ” - Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line

The novel illustrates 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.

This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.

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© 2019 Xist Classics (E-kirja): 9781532426179

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E-kirja: 1. lokakuuta 2019