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The Shadow Line: A Confession

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The Shadow Line: A Confession
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Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co
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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