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(Conrad) thought of civilised and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might break and let the unwary sink into fiery depths
Bertrand Russell

This selection of four tales by Conrad is about radical insecurity: lone human beings involuntarily forced into confrontation with a terrifying universe in which they can never be wholly at home. It leads with The End of the Tether and includes also The Duel, The Return, and Amy Foster Sailor, Soldier, Rich Man, Immigrant. These powerful shorter works remind readers that Conrad is not just the teller of sea stories and tales of imperialist action, and not only the author of the ubiquitous Heart of Darkness. This is the Conrad who is master of the terror element global crisis, individual test, and personal trauma in modern literature.

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Author: Joseph Conrad, Philip Davis
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/10/2023
Series: Oxford Worlds Classics
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.11w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780192896827
Language: English