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
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
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