Typhoon and Other Stories
$30.13
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2007
Summary
Published alongside other Conrad’s works, on the 150th anniversary of his death.
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 intellig…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141441955 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014144195X |
| Author: | Joseph Conrad |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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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
“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
About The Author
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (originally J zef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.
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