- Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (22 Feb 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 014018032X
- ISBN-13: 978-0140180329
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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A run of bad luck at cards, the failure of a small speculation undertaken on his own account, an unexpected demand for money from one or another member of the Da Souza family--and almost before he was well aware of it he was off the path of his peculiar honesty. It was such a faint and ill-defined track that it took him some time to find out how far he had strayed amongst the brambles of the dangerous wilderness.
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Joseph Conrad was a Polish novelist who lived most of his life in Britain and didn't learn English until age 21. The young Conrad lived an adventurous life involving gunrunning and political conspiracy, and apparently had a disastrous love affair that plunged him into despair. He served 16 years in the merchant navy.In 1894, at age 36, Conrad reluctantly gave up the sea, partly because of poor health and partly because he had decided on a literary career.
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This is Conrad's second novel and is very similar to Lord Jim.However its style is slightly less convoluted in the descriptive sense,but it still retains the intensity and dark turn of phrase of his later works.The emotional depth of the characters and their sufferings in a strange and savage land is profoundly portrayed and is rarely equalled,this is an excellent introduction to this author.
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Dark intense prose from another century. Conrad's beautifully ironic look at greed and imperialism is illuminating and relevant to the veiled arrogance of our 21st century western world.
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