Amy Foster

By Conrad, Joseph

Book Id: WPLBN0000627075
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 0.5 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Amy Foster
Author:	Conrad, Joseph
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Conrad, B. J. (n.d.). Amy Foster. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Excerpt: Kennedy is a country doctor, and lives in Cole? brook, on the shores of Eastbay. The high ground rising abruptly behind the red roofs of the little town crowds the quaint High Street against the wall which defends it from the sea. Beyond the sea?wall there curves for miles in a vast and regular sweep the barren beach of shingle, with the village of Brenzett standing out darkly across the water, a spire in a clump of trees; and still further out the perpendicular column of a lighthouse, look? ing in the distance no bigger than a lead pencil, marks the vanishing?point of the land. The coun? try at the back of Brenzett is low and flat, but the bay is fairly well sheltered from the seas, and occa? sionally a big ship, windbound or through stress of weather, makes use of the anchoring ground a mile and a half due north from you as you stand at the back door of the ?Ship Inn? in Brenzett. A dilapidated windmill near by lifting its shattered arms from a mound no loftier than a rubbish heap, and a Martello tower squatting at the water?s edge half a mile to the south of the Coastguard cottages, are familiar to the skippers of small craft. These are the official seamarks for the patch of trust? worthy bottom represented on the Admiralty charts by an irregular oval of dots enclosing several fig? ures six, with a tiny anchor engraved among them, and the legend ?mud and shells? over all.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Amy Foster, 1 -- Joseph Conrad, 1