Jeremy Hawthorn is emeritus professor in the department of language and literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. He is the author of three monographs and many articles on the fiction of Joseph Conrad, and has co-edited three collections of essays on the writer. His The Reader as Peeping Tom was published in 2014, and the seventh edition of his Studying the Novel in 2017. Max Saunders is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Life Writing and Research at King's College London. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, 2 vols (1996 and 2012) and, in addition to other scholarly publications, has edited five volumes of Ford Madox Ford's writing.

• List of Illustrations; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology: Joseph Conrad; Chronology: Ford Madox Ford; Abbreviations and Note on Editions; Introduction; The Inheritors; The Nature of a Crime; Illustrations; The Texts: An Essay; Apparatus; Textual Notes; Appendix 1: Ford Madox Ford on The Inheritors; Appendix 2: 'The Old Story'; Explanatory Notes.

Jeremy Hawthorn is emeritus professor in the department of language and literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. He is the author of three monographs and many articles on the fiction of Joseph Conrad, and has co-edited three collections of essays on the writer. His The Reader as Peeping Tom was published in 2014, and the seventh edition of his Studying the Novel in 2017. Max Saunders is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Life Writing and Research at King's College London. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, 2 vols (1996 and 2012) and, in addition to other scholarly publications, has edited five volumes of Ford Madox Ford's writing.

• List of Illustrations; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology: Joseph Conrad; Chronology: Ford Madox Ford; Abbreviations and Note on Editions; Introduction; The Inheritors; The Nature of a Crime; Illustrations; The Texts: An Essay; Apparatus; Textual Notes; Appendix 1: Ford Madox Ford on The Inheritors; Appendix 2: 'The Old Story'; Explanatory Notes.

Jeremy Hawthorn is emeritus professor in the department of language and literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. He is the author of three monographs and many articles on the fiction of Joseph Conrad, and has co-edited three collections of essays on the writer. His The Reader as Peeping Tom was published in 2014, and the seventh edition of his Studying the Novel in 2017. Max Saunders is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Life Writing and Research at King's College London. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, 2 vols (1996 and 2012) and, in addition to other scholarly publications, has edited five volumes of Ford Madox Ford's writing.

• List of Illustrations; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology: Joseph Conrad; Chronology: Ford Madox Ford; Abbreviations and Note on Editions; Introduction; The Inheritors; The Nature of a Crime; Illustrations; The Texts: An Essay; Apparatus; Textual Notes; Appendix 1: Ford Madox Ford on The Inheritors; Appendix 2: 'The Old Story'; Explanatory Notes.