Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924
Three sea stories : typhoon, falk, the shadow, line / Joseph Conrad - xlii, 255 páginas ; 20 cm. - Wordsworth Classics .
As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His charactters are tested by dramatic events "that show in the ligth of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistence and the secret of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself".
9781853267437
Novela inglesa
English novel
Historias de aventuras
Adventure story
823.9 / / C754t
Three sea stories : typhoon, falk, the shadow, line / Joseph Conrad - xlii, 255 páginas ; 20 cm. - Wordsworth Classics .
As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His charactters are tested by dramatic events "that show in the ligth of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistence and the secret of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself".
9781853267437
Novela inglesa
English novel
Historias de aventuras
Adventure story
823.9 / / C754t