...W ITHIN THE T IDES Four Stories by Joseph Conrad from the 1919 J. M. Dent edition A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS ... ...AT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA TION Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...et- als changed into living tissue. “… I told her my people were living in Canada, but that I was brought up in England before coming out here. I can’... ...er on the ground of personal merit or as the pioneer of the vegetable silk industry. It must have been the last, because he remembered distinctly, as ... ... fellow’s arm under his own and walks away with him to the left, where the fishing-harbour is… I suppose I haven’t misunderstood you. Y ou wish me to ... ...,” he begins earnestly and goes on with every appearance of calm, horrible industry. Don’t imagine, however, that there is anything archaic in my find... ...‘Mon Malheur.’ His hands had been blown away by a dynamite cartridge while fishing in some lagoon. This accident, I believe, had made him more wicked ...

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...A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Reco... ... A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ... STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Record by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Record by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se- r... ...thly line of sailings from Rouen, for the transport of French emigrants to Canada. But, frankly, this sort of thing did not interest me very much. I s... ... a successful example of self- help based on character, determination, and industry; and my great-grandmother, her health completely broken down, died... ...itude of fellow beings even as a fish is drawn from the depths of the sea. Fishing is notoriously (I am talking now of the deep sea) a matter of luck....

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...Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscen... ...A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Serie... ...thly line of sailings from Rouen, for the transport of French emigrants to Canada. But, frankly, this sort of thing did not interest me very much. I s... ...ch a successful example of self-help based on character, determination and industry; and my great-grandmother, her health completely broken down, died... ...itude of fellow-beings even as a fish is drawn from the depths of the sea. Fishing is notoriously (I am talk- ing now of the deep sea) a matter of luc...

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...Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tal... ...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylv... ...keeping in a small way here and there; and once an organized enterprise of fishing—in Maldonado—for Giorgio, like the great Garibaldi, had been a sail... ... the most considerable of the three. He was considerable in finance and in industry. His name was familiar to many millions of people. He was so consi... ...n the whole of God’s Universe. We shall be giving the word for everything: industry, trade, law, journal- ism, art, politics, and religion, from Cape ... ...Cali- fornia, visit Yellowstone Park, see Chicago, Niagara, have a look at Canada, perhaps make a short stay in New York, a longer one in Newport, use... ... Then I noticed an old negro, who had been sitting behind a pile of cases, fishing from the wharf. He wound up his lines and slunk away at once. But h...

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...Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on... ...Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life a... ...LECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portab... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania St... ...l past, and it cannot hope for a historical future. It can only end. By no industry of investigation, by no fantastic stretch of benevolence, can it b... ...ivilisation of Europe could not allow itself to be disturbed by a war. The industry and the finance could not allow themselves to be disorganised by t... ...ry of fine rain blew along like a puff of smoke across the dots of distant fishing boats, very few, very scattered, and tossing restlessly on an ever ... ... indigna- tion of the New South Wales Premier flashed tele- graphically to Canada is perfectly uncalled-for. That statesman, whose sympathy for poor m...

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......................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 ..................................................................