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Tales of Unrest

Tales of Unrest

Conrad, Joseph

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1976318777
ISBN13: 9781976318771
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Sep 11 2017
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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The first collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime, including: Karain: A Memory, The Idiots, The Lagoon, An Outpost of Progress, The Return.

Born in Poland, Joseph Conrad wrote all his works in English, a language he had only learned as an adult. Despite this, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise. His outsider's eye gave him special insights into the moral dangers of the great age of European empires. In his prefactory note to this volume, Conrad wrote, Of the five stories in this volume, The Lagoon, the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions. Conceived in the same mood which produced Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands, it is told in the same breath (with what was left of it, that is, after the end of An Outcast), seen with the same vision, rendered in the same method -- if such a thing as method did exist then in my conscious relation to this new adventure of writing for print. I doubt it very much. One does one's work first and theorizes about it afterwards. It is a very amusing and egotistical occupation of no use whatever to anyone and just as likely as not to lead to false conclusions.

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