Typhoon and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Conrad, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014144195X ISBN 13: 9780141441955

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2007

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Book by Conrad Joseph

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"My own conviction, sweeping all those reaches of living fiction I know, is that Conrad's figure stands out from the field like the Alps from the Piedmont plain." --H. L. Mencken

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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.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 014144195X
• ISBN 13: 9780141441955
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Herausgeber: Stape J. H.