Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories - Includes the Original Publication of Heart of Darkness + the Author's Note
Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories - Includes the Original Publication of Heart of Darkness + the Author's Note

Author: Joseph Conrad

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2013-07-10

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 8074844420

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This carefully crafted ebook: “Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories - Includes the Original Publication of Heart of Darkness + the Author's Note” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Youth" is an autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad. Written in 1898, it was first published in Blackwood's Magazine, and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. This volume also includes Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, stories concerned with the themes of maturity and old age, respectively. "Youth" depicts a young man's first journey to the East. It is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Lord Jim and Chance. The narrator's introduction suggests this is the first time, chronologically, the character Marlow appears in Conrad's works (the Author comments that he thinks Marlow spells his name this way). Similar to Joseph Conrad's better-known Heart of Darkness, Youth begins with a narrator describing five men drinking claret around a mahogany table. They are all veterans of the merchant navy. The main character, Marlow, tells the story of his first voyage to the East as second mate on board the Judea. The story is set twenty-two years earlier, when Marlow was 20. Publication history: 1898 (probably May) - Conrad begins writing "Youth" June 3, 1898 - Conrad finishes writing "Youth" September 1898 - "Youth" is first published in Blackwood's Magazine November 13, 1902 - the book volume "Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories" is published by William Blackwood - also contained the stories Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether 1903 - First American edition was published by McClure, Phillips 1917 - Second British edition was published by J.M. Dent Original forms that are still in existence: An incomplete manuscript A section of typescript The Blackwood's Magazine

Heart of Darkness, With, The Congo Diary
Heart of Darkness, With, The Congo Diary

Author: Joseph Conrad

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780140186529

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A group of white men journeys up the Congo River to invade the jungles of the Belgian Congo, in an effort to rob the natives of their irovy.

The Making of a Teenage Service Class
The Making of a Teenage Service Class

Author: Ranita Ray

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0520292065

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"Stereotypes of economically marginalized black and brown youth focus on drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood. Families, schools, nonprofit organizations, and institutions in poor urban neighborhoods emphasize preventing such "risk behaviors." In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of concentrating on risk behaviors as key to targeting poverty. Having spent three years among sixteen black and Latina/o youth, Ray shares their stories of trying to beat the odds of living in poverty. Their struggles of hunger, homelessness, and untreated illnesses are juxtaposed with the perseverance of completing homework, finding jobs, and spending long hours traveling from work to school to home. By focusing on the lives of youth who largely avoid drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood, the book challenges the idea that targeting these "risk behaviors" is key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Ray compellingly demonstrates how the disproportionate emphasis on risk behaviors reinforces class and race hierarchies and diverts resources that could support marginalized youth's basic necessities and educational and occupational goals."--Provided by publisher.

Feral Youth
Feral Youth

Author: Shaun David Hutchinson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1481491113

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Follows ten teens who are left alone in the wilderness amid a three-day survival test.

The Passage from Youth to Adulthood
The Passage from Youth to Adulthood

Author: Pierluca Birindelli

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2014-09-26

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0761863907

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The Passage from Youth to Adulthood explores a society unanchored from culturally endorsed rites of passage, in which young people and adults appear to build their identities within a culture of dependency. In this book, author Pierluca Birindelli interviews Italian young adults still living with their parents, and focuses on how those individuals view the bedroom and the objects therein. From there, he analyzes self-narrations and longer autobiographies written by university students, measuring his impressions against sociological, psychological, and anthropological literature. Birindelli explores the paradigm of what he calls “intergenerational collusion,” in which fathers and sons are playing to the same script, heedless of the common good, the other, and the future. Finally, integrating the experience of young Americans abroad sparks transcultural reflections about the concept of play and the authenticity of social performance.

Youth: A Narrative
Youth: A Narrative

Author: Joseph Conrad

Publisher: Livraria Press

Published: 2024-05-09

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 3989886622

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A new edition with introduction and expanded reference materials including a character list and discussion questions. Youth is an early coming-of-age short story written in 1898 by Joseph Conrad that tells the story of a young man named Marlow, who recounts his experiences as a sailor on his first voyage as a mate on a ship. Conrad's narrator Marlow would tell all of Conrad's later major novels including Heart of Darkness. The story is set in the late 1800s and explores themes of adventure, youth, and the sea. Marlow recounts his journey and the lessons he learned about life, the sea and himself. He also reflects on the hardships and dangers of life at sea, and the camaraderie that develops among the crew. The story ends with Marlow reflecting on how his experiences have shaped him and how he has grown as a person.

Friend of My Youth
Friend of My Youth

Author: Alice Munro

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-04-25

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0307814599

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A “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”—Chicago Tribune A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband’s past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.