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| Youth |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
This Could Have Occurred Nowhere But In England, Where Men And Sea Interpenetrate, So To Speak--the Sea Entering Into The Life Of Most Men, And The Men Knowing Something Or Everything About The Sea, In The Way Of Amusement, Of Travel, Or Of ...
| Victory |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
On Approaching The Task Of Writing This Note For Victory, The First Thing I Am Conscious Of Is The Actual Nearness Of The Book, Its Nearness To Me Personally, To The Vanished Mood In Which It Was Written, And To The Mixed Feelings Aroused By The ...
| Under Western Eyes |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
To Begin With I Wish To Disclaim The Possession Of Those High Gifts Of Imagination And Expression Which Would Have Enabled My Pen To Create For The Reader The Personality Of The Man Who Called Himself, After The Russian Custom, Cyril Son Of ...
| Typhoon |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
Captain Macwhirr, Of The Steamer Nan-shan, Had A Physiognomy That, In The Order Of Material Appearances, Was The Exact Counterpart Of His Mind: It Presented No Marked Characteristics Of Firmness Or Stupidity; It Had No Pronounced Characteristics ...
| To-morrow |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
What Was Known Of Captain Hagberd In The Little Seaport Of Colebrook Was Not Exactly In His Favour. He Did Not Belong To The Place. He Had Come To Settle There Under Circumstances Not At All Mysterious--he Used To Be Very Communicative About Them ...
| The Shadow Line |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
To Borys And All Others Who, Like Himself, Have Crossed In Early Youth The Shadow Line Of Their Generation With Love.....
| The Secret Sharer |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
On My Right Hand There Were Lines Of Fishing Stakes Resembling A Mysterious System Of Half-submerged Bamboo Fences, Incomprehensible In Its Division Of The Domain Of Tropical Fishes, And Crazy Of Aspect As If Abandoned Forever By Some Nomad Tribe ...
| The Rescue |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
Of The Three Long Novels Of Mine Which Suffered An Interruption, "the Rescue" Was The One That Had To Wait The Longest For The Good Pleasure Of The Fates. I Am Betraying No Secret When I State Here That It Had To Wait Precisely For Twenty Ye...
| The Point Of Honor |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
Napoleon The First, Whose Career Had The Quality Of A Duel Against The Whole Of Europe, Disliked Duelling Between The Officers Of His Army. The Great Military Emperor Was Not A Swashbuckler, And Had Little Respect For Tradition....
| Some Reminiscences |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
As A General Rule We Do Not Want Much Encouragement To Talk About Ourselves; Yet This Little Book Is The Result Of A Friendly Suggestion, And Even Of A Little Friendly Pressure. I Defended Myself With Some Spirit; But, With Characteristic ...
| Romance |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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To Yesterday And To To-day I Say My Polite "vaya Usted Con Dios." What Are These Days To Me? But That Far-off Day Of My Romance, When From Between The Blue And White Bales In Don Ramon's Darkened Storeroom, At Kingston, I Saw The Door Open Before ...
| One Day More |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
To Rights Two Yellow Brick Cottages Belonging To Captain Hagberd, One Inhabited By Himself The Other By The Carvils. A Lamp-post In Front. The Red Roofs Of The Town In The Background. A Sea-wall To Left....
| Nostromo, A Tale Of The Seaboard |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
In The Time Of Spanish Rule, And For Many Years Afterwards, The Town Of Sulaco--the Luxuriant Beauty Of The Orange Gardens Bears Witness To Its Antiquity--had Never Been Commercially Anything More Important Than A Coasting Port With A Fairly ...
| Lord Jim |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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He Was An Inch, Perhaps Two, Under Six Feet, Powerfully Built, And He Advanced Straight At You With A Slight Stoop Of The Shoulders, Head Forward, And A Fixed From-under Stare Which Made You Think Of A Charging Bull. His Voice Was Deep, Loud, And ...
| Heart Of Darkness |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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The Nellie, A Cruising Yawl, Swung To Her Anchor Without A Flutter Of The Sails, And Was At Rest. The Flood Had Made, The Wind Was Nearly Calm, And Being Bound Down The River, The Only Thing For It Was To Come To And Wait For The Turn Of The ...
| Falk |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
Several Of Us, All More Or Less Connected With The Sea, Were Dining In A Small River-hostelry Not More Than Thirty Miles From London, And Less Than Twenty From That Shallow And Dangerous Puddle To Which Our Coasting Men Give The Grandiose Name Of ...
| End Of The Tether |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
For A Long Time After The Course Of The Steamer _sofala_ Had Been Altered For The Land, The Low Swampy Coast Had Retained Its Appearance Of A Mere Smudge Of Darkness Beyond A Belt Of Glitter. The Sunrays Seemed To Fall Violently Upon The Calm ...
| An Outcast Of The Islands |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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When He Stepped Off The Straight And Narrow Path Of His Peculiar Honesty, It Was With An Inward Assertion Of Unflinching Resolve To Fall Back Again Into The Monotonous But Safe Stride Of Virtue As Soon As His Little Excursion Into The Wayside ...
| Amy Foster |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
Kennedy Is A Country Doctor, And Lives In Colebrook, On The Shores Of Eastbay. The High Ground Rising Abruptly Behind The Red Roofs Of The Little Town Crowds The Quaint High Street Against The Wall Which Defends It From The Sea....
| A Set Of Six |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
The Six Stories In This Volume Are The Result Of Some Three Or Four Years Of Occasional Work. The Dates Of Their Writing Are Far Apart, Their Origins Are Various. None Of Them Are Connected Directly With Personal Experiences....
| A Personal Record |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
As A General Rule We Do Not Want Much Encouragement To Talk About Ourselves; Yet This Little Book Is The Result Of A Friendly Suggestion, And Even Of A Little Friendly Pressure. I Defended Myself With Some Spirit; But, With Characteristic ...