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20 de set. de 2022 · Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place on land, albeit in sight of the sea. In "A Smile of Fortune", a naive young sea captain falls into grave moral peril when he locks horns with a wily ship chandler in Mauritius.
26 de mai. de 2008 · `'Twixt Land and Sea` (1912) is a collection of three short stories by Joseph Conrad. After a hiatus from sea stories Conrad returned to his roots much to the delight of his fans. Conrad intentionally published these stories in a single volume, they hold together as a whole, greater than the parts, as described below.
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Twixt Land & Sea. New texts of Joseph Conrad's modern classic 'The Secret Sharer' and of two other tales appear in this edition of 'Twixt Land and Sea with numerous words, sentences, and entire paragraphs restored from Conrad's manuscripts and typescripts. Written while he was working on Under Western Eyes, these stories, when collected ...
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“Twixt Land and Sea” in Conrad’s Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories 89 the writer says: “Both at sea and on land my point of view is English, from which the conclusion should not be drawn that I have become an Englishman. That is not the case. Homo duplex has in my case more than one meaning.”12 For Conrad was
2019. 1,57. Direct beschikbaar. Hardcover. 2008. 120,99. 3 - 5 weken. Twixt Land and Sea (Hardcover). New texts of Joseph Conrad's modern classic 'The Secret Sharer' and of two other tales appear in this edition of 'Twixt...
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak English well until he was in his 20s.
