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"Put a red sash round his waist and a red handkerchief round his head and he would look exactly like one of them buccaneering chaps that made men walk the plank and carried women off into captivity!"
So said another captain about Captain Johns' new mate aboard the Sapphire, the fine ship now at dock in London. With hair dark as a raven's wing, the new mate little knew what would come of shipping with superstitious Johns, who believed in ghosts -- no more than he knew what strange events awaited him on the rolling seas ahead.
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Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British citizenship in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on his native Poland's national experiences and his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world-including imperialism and colonialism-and that profoundly explore the human psyche.
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- PublisherAegypan
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1603125531
- ISBN 13 9781603125536
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages115
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