A Set of Six
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ISBN10: 1542758300
ISBN13: 9781542758307
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 25 2017
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781542758307
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 25 2017
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Six nouvelles (titre original en anglais: A Set of Six) est un recueil de nouvelles de Joseph Conrad publié pour la première fois en 1908. 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. In all of them the facts are inherently true, by which I mean that they are not only possible but that they have actually happened. For instance, the last story in the volume, the one I call Pathetic, whose first title is Il Conde (misspelt by-the-by) is an almost verbatim transcript of the tale told me by a very charming old gentleman whom I met in Italy. I don't mean to say it is only that. Anybody can see that it is something more than a verbatim report, but where he left off and where I began must be left to the acute discrimination of the reader who may be interested in the problem. I don't mean to say that the problem is worth the trouble. What I am certain of, however, is that it is not to be solved, for I am not at all clear about it myself by this time. All I can say is that the personality of the narrator was extremely suggestive quite apart from the story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died far away from his beloved Naples where that abominable adventure did really happen to him.
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