基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：320 页
出版日期：2007年12月
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In "Typhoon" Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate, the differences between instinct and intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival. "Falk", the companion sea-story, contrasts, as Conrad once put it, 'common sentimentalism with the frank standpoint of a more or less primitive man', a man with a conscience, however, about the girl he desires. In one of the 'land-stories' Conrad explores the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England; in the other, the plight of a woman ironically trapped by the unwitting alliance of two retired widowers - each blind in his own way.
作者简介 Barry Unsworth is the author of Sacred Hunger, and, most recently, of Losing Nelson. He lives in Umbria, Italy. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
专业书评 Review
?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


From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.