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Conrad, Joseph--[Sylvia Plath]
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- Conrad, Joseph--[Sylvia Plath]
- Lord Jim. Introduction by J. Donald Adams. New York: The Modern Library, [n.d.]
- PAPER
8vo, Sylvia Plath's copy, bearing her signed bookplate and extensively underlined and with numerous annotations by her, additionally annotated by Ted Hughes ("I read this novel, this copy, aloud | to Sylvia, in the evenings, while | she was making her rag rug - 1962. | Ted Hughes" on rear free endpaper, original red brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, dust-jacket, extremities bumped and sunned, occasional scribbles in green felt-tip, significant loss to dust-jacket
Provenance
Sylvia Plath, ownership signature and annotations
Catalogue Note
Plath's annotations show a constant and inquiring attentiveness as she reads the book, signalling passages with comments such as "disenchantment - cruel irony of young illusion of sea" (in chapter eleven). Plath has underlined Conrad's comment in his author's note about "thinking it over for something like sixteen years" and added "never commit yourself hastily, I always say!"