基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：320 页
出版日期：2007年12月
ISBN：014144195X
条形码：9780141441955
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：台风以及其他小说

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 Joseph Conrad (originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.
编辑推荐 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. -- Review --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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.