page_title: Youth (Conrad short story)
section_title: Publication history
hierarchical_section_title: Youth (Conrad short story) / Publication history
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page: Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1902. *EC9 C7638 902y (A), Houghton Library, Harvard University
context_page_description: "Youth" is an 1898 autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad published in Blackwood's Magazine, and then included as the first story in Conrad's 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, Chance, and Heart of Darkness. The narrator's introduction suggests this is the first time, chronologically, the character Marlow appears in Conrad's works.
context_section_description: 1898 (probably May)  – Conrad begins writing "Youth"
  3 June 1898 – Conrad finishes writing "Youth"
  September 1898 – "Youth" is first published in Blackwood's Magazine
  13 November 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
  1921 – William Heinemann brought out Youth: A Narrative; and The End of a Tether as part of a limited British edition of the collected works
  1923 – published by Doubleday in America, and Dent in Britain as part of the first general collected 'editions'
  Original forms that are still in existence
  An incomplete manuscript
  A section of typescript
  The Blackwood's Magazine
caption: Title page for Youth: A Narrative, and Two Other Stories, 1902
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