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"Typhoon and Other Stories" is a collection of four shorter works by Joseph Conrad. In the title work "Typhoon" we have a classic tale of the sea which describes how Captain MacWhirr sails the Siamese steamer "Nan-Shan" into a typhoon. "Typhoon" excellently depicts sea-faring life at the turn of the 20th century. Also included in this collection is "Amy Foster", the story of a Polish immigrant who on his way to America becomes shipwrecked off the cost of England. Since he speaks no English, he is treated as a madman and imprisoned by the local Englishmen who find him. In "Amy Foster" Conrad draws upon his Polish heritage to provide a convincing story of the difficulties arising from acclimating oneself to a foreign land. You will also find the stories "Falk: A Reminiscence" and "To-Morrow" in this collection of nautically themed works.
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Four classic stories of the sea by Joseph Conrad: ?Typhoon,? ?Amy Foster,? ?Falk,? and ?Tomorrow?
These powerful stories, as Conrad critic Paul Kirschner has observed, present ?a chiaroscuro of sea and land life in an alternating rhythm of hope and despair.? In ?Typhoon,? a storm upends a captain?s complacency, hurling him and his crew into a terrifying battle with nature. ?Amy Foster? tells the story of an Eastern European immigrant shipwrecked off the coast of England, and his ultimately doomed love affair with the dim-witted Amy Foster. In ?Falk,? the protagonist harbors a terrible secret that inhibits his ability to confront the woman he loves and find the wife he longs for. And in ?Tomorrow,? the son of a retired sea captain, who has been waiting years for his boy to come home, finally returns, but only because he is destitute and needs money.
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These powerful stories, as Conrad critic Paul Kirschner has observed, present ?a chiaroscuro of sea and land life in an alternating rhythm of hope and despair.? In ?Typhoon,? a storm upends a captain?s complacency, hurling him and his crew into a terrifying battle with nature. ?Amy Foster? tells the story of an Eastern European immigrant shipwrecked off the coast of England, and his ultimately doomed love affair with the dim-witted Amy Foster. In ?Falk,? the protagonist harbors a terrible secret that inhibits his ability to confront the woman he loves and find the wife he longs for. And in ?Tomorrow,? the son of a retired sea captain, who has been waiting years for his boy to come home, finally returns, but only because he is destitute and needs money.
“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
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