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...Excerpt: For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea--seemed to sh...

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...End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION End of the Teth... ... by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ... STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a bel... ...t hope to see anything new upon this lane of the sea. He had been on these coasts for the last three years. From Low Cape to Malantan the dis- tance w... ...spaces of the world; they were gathering low be- tween the deep stonefaced banks of the canal. The Malay prau, half-concealed under the arch of the br... ..., low down, the growth of somber twisted mangroves covered the semi-liquid banks; and Massy contin- ued in his old tone, with an abrupt start, as if h... ...ght upon a little table bearing an open book 102 End of the Tether and an ivory paper-knife. And, in the translucent shadows beyond, other tables cou...

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...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understoo...

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...Contents: I. Landfalls and Departures IV. Emblems of Hope VII. The Fine Art X. Cobwebs and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and Missing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West...

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...The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of t... ...eph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e fullest sense of the phrase, for days; but, for all that, as long as the coast she was about to leave remained in sight, a southern-going ship of ye... ...nguished from the sentimental, “good-bye.” Henceforth he has done with the coast astern of his ship. It is a matter personal to the man. It is not the... ...generally suffused with the hue of blood, shone dead white, like a dome of ivory. And he looked strangely untidy. I perceived he had not shaved himsel... ...hirling air from one end of my dismal kingdom to the other: over the Great Banks or along the edges of pack-ice—this one with true aim right into the ... ...s very over- whelming; but even when you had to defy him openly, as on the banks of the Agulhas homeward bound from the East Indies, or on the outward...

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...Excerpt: The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor with-out a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide....

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...Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heart of Darkne... ...y Joseph Conrad A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the utte... ...deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers of progress drink t... ... sole purpose of landing soldiers and custom-house officers. I watched the coast. Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an e... ... ward off intruders; in and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded th... ... set into the depths of darkness, and in return came a precious trickle of ivory. “I had to wait in the station for ten days—an eternity. I lived in a... ... at present in charge of a trading post, a very important one, in the true ivory-country, at ‘the very bottom of there. 22 Heart of Darkness Sends in...

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Excerpt: A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad.

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...A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Reco... ... STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... emperor who was a sage and something of a literary man. He jotted down on ivory tablets thoughts, max- ims, reflections which chance has preserved fo... ... the splendour of their marble-like condition and their rich tone of young ivory. He was the leader of a small caravan. The light of a headlong, exalt... ...s compound. It disappeared behind some bushes. “The only geese on the East Coast,” Almayer informed me, in a perfunctory mutter without a spark of fai... ...ly its special quality, multiple and rare. From the only flock on the East Coast! He did not make half enough of it. That man did not understand his o... ...North Sea (I suppose) and provided me with a lee shore with outlying sand- banks—the Dutch coast, presumably. Distance, eight miles. The evidence of s...

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Excerpt: An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad.

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...An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast... ...onrad A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...TRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portab... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...a vagabond of the seas, a true Orang-Laut, living by rapine and plunder of coasts and ships in his prosperous days; earning his living by honest and i... ... es- cape, and their swift praus, in which they had so of- ten scoured the coast and the seas, now wedged to- 49 Joseph Conrad gether in the narrow c... ...ouses built on low piles under a few precious fruit trees that grew on the banks of a clear brook, which, bubbling up behind the house, ran in its sho... ...upon the prospects of the season’s rice-crop. He knew every settler on the banks between the sea and Sambir; he knew their wives, their children; he k... ...e, in the half-light above the lamp, appeared like a soiled carving of old ivory—a carving, with accentuated anxious hollows, of old, very old ivory. ...

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Excerpt: A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad.

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...Contents AUTHOR?S NOTE .........................................................................................4 A SET OF SIX ..................................................................................................8 GASPAR RUIZ .................................................................................................8 AN IRON...

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...y Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim ... ...ears 1824 and 1828, senior officer of a small British Squadron on the West Coast of South America. His book published in the thirties obtained a certa... ... of Lima and liberator of Peru. A great battle had just been fought on the banks of the river Bio-Bio. Amongst the prisoners made upon the routed Roya... ... and almost immediately with the darkening of the ocean dusk fell upon the coasts of the young Republic. Above the gloom of the low- lands the snowy p... ...Six vided with an elegant little leather folding-case con- taining a small ivory comb, and fitted with a piece of looking-glass on the outside. Genera... ...e to this last that Gen- eral Feraud answered from a little village on the banks of the Garonne, in the following words: “If one of your boy’s names h...

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Excerpt: Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad.

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...Contents of Within the Tides THE PLANTER OF MALATA......................................................................4 THE PARTNER ............................................................................................66 THE I...

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...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... ... S ERIES P UBLICA TION Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...er the red coppery gold of the hair as though she had been a being made of ivory and precious met- als changed into living tissue. “… I told her my pe... ...ng brilliance of her femininity. He did not know what there was under that ivory forehead so splendidly shaped, so gloriously crowned. He could not te... ...cks, cumbered with long chairs, of a ship steaming towards the Californian coast. To Renouard the philosopher appeared simply the most treacherous of ... ...a most elaborate detail of the why and where- fore of his presence on that coast—presumably the north coast of Spain. His experience has nothing to do... ...ld go up tiny creeks and into shallow bays and through reefs and over sand-banks, col- lecting produce, where no other vessel but a native craft would...

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Excerpt: The Rescue by Joseph Conrad.

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...The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Rescue by J... ... A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Rescue by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- tab... ... CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Rescue by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...d body of the tale it loomed up big amongst the glittering shallows of the coast, lonely but not forbidding. There was nothing about it of a grim dere... ...litude through the mind of that child of generations of fishermen from the coast of Devon, who like most of his class was dead to the subtle voices, a... ...eadbare sarong wound tightly on the hips protruded outward to the left the ivory hilt, ringed with six bands of gold, of a weapon that would not have ... ...t on shoulder and match in cock, guarded timber blockhouses built upon the banks of rivers that command good trade? You, who, wearied with the toil of... ...nswered, “to you—and for you only.” The flood tide running strong over the banks made a placid trickling sound about the yacht’s rudder. “I would not ...

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...Excerpt: I believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, ...

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...Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad From the 1914 Methuen & Co. edition. A Penn State Electronic Classic... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portab... ...Publication Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... he had gone in for the most fantastic schemes: a harbour and docks on the coast of Patagonia, quarries in Labrador—such like specula- tions. Fisherie... ...rador—such like specula- tions. Fisheries to feed a canning Factory on the banks of the Amazon was one of them. A principality to be bought in Mada- g... ...d some things of less unquestion- able ownership, a jewelled penholder, an ivory and gold pa- per knife (the house was full of common, costly objects)... ... al- ways maintained an attitude of reserve towards the de Barral group of banks, had its “manner.” Y es! a modest item of news! But there was also, o... ...hat sunken face, with a tightly closed mouth, stared at the distant French coast, vague like a suggestion of solid darkness, lying abeam beyond the ev...