Author: Joseph Conrad
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Languages : en
Pages : 278
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This classic sea-faring story is believed to be based on author Joseph Conrad's real experiences at sea when he sailed aboard the John P. Best steamer under Captain John MacWhir. Also includes the stories: "Amy Foster," "Falk: A Reminiscence," and "To-morrow".In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate, the differences between instinct and intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival. 'Falk', the companion sea-story, contrasts, as Conrad once put it, 'common sentimentalism with the frank standpoint of a more or less primitive man', a man with a conscience, however, about the girl he desires. In one of the 'land-stories' Conrad explores the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England; in the other, the plight of a woman ironically trapped by the unwitting alliance of two retired widowers - each blind in his own way.
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 067940547X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Joseph Conrad’s long experience as a working seaman enriched and deepened his literary gifts, making him the most brilliant and convincing writer of seafaring’s greatest age. In the three sea stories collected here, he makes deft use of the maritime setting to enact moral dramas of men tested by the elements and by one another. “The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’” has been hailed as Conrad’s earliest masterpiece. When a West Indian sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus falls ill his condition sparks conflict among the crew, which threatens to erupt in mutiny under the pressure of a terrifying gale. “Typhoon,” the gripping story of a steamship captain who stubbornly steers into a major tempest and the crew’s ensuing struggle to survive the raging waters, is distinguished by one of the most thrillingly evoked storms in all of literature. “The Shadow-Line” is a dramatically fictionalized account of Conrad’s first command as a young sea captain trapped aboard a becalmed, fever-wracked, and seemingly haunted ship—an ordeal that marks for him the “shadow-line” between youth and maturity. Suspenseful, atmospheric, and deceptively simple, this intense story reflects the complex themes of Conrad’s most famous novels, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness. With an introduction by Martin Seymour-Smith
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Author: Joseph Conrad
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Joseph Conrad
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Falk: A young mariner negotiates a marriage between the taciturn Falk and the simple but physically attractive daughter of a ship's captain.
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Author: Joseph Conrad
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Author: Joseph Conrad
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Author: Joseph Conrad
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Languages : en
Pages : 304
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"Typhoon and other stories" is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in Pall Mall Magazine in January-March 1902. Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in 1902; it was also published in Britain in Typhoon and Other Stories by Heinemann in 1903.Typhoon is a classic sea yarn, possibly based upon Conrad's actual experience of seaman's life, and probably on a real incident aboard of the steamer John P. Best (according to the book by Jerry Allen on the "Sea years of Joseph Conrad", first published in 1965). The author of the mentioned book - an American journalist - did not reveal in her book any further details. Joseph Conrad himself described it as a "recent and much-discussed incident" (Author's note to the novella).
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Presents three novellas by nineteenth-century author Joseph Conrad, including the title work in which Captain Macwhirr, unable to believe that any storm could be a match for his powerful ship, ignores all warning signs of trouble ahead and forges straight into a typhoon.
