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Typhoon and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by Joseph Conrad published in 1903 by William Heinemann and Company.
“Typhoon,” the gripping story of a steamship captain who stubbornly steers into a major tempest and the crew’s ensuing struggle to survive the raging waters, is distinguished by one of the most thrillingly evoked storms in all of literature.
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In one of the ‘land-stories’ Conrad explores the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England; in the other, the plight of a woman ironically trapped by the unwitting alliance of two retired widowers – each blind in his own way.
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6 feb 2009 · Typhoon, and Other Stories: And Other Stories : Joseph Conrad : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Joseph Conrad. Publication date. 1921. Publisher. Doubleday, Page. Collection. americana. Book from the collections of. University of Michigan. Language. English.
3 giu 2022 · Typhoon and Other Stories. Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the first time in his life.
Typhoon: Captain MacWhirr and his first mate Jukes keep their ship, the Nan Shan, afloat during a brutal hurricane, faltering engines, and passenger uprisings. Amy Foster: Yanko Goorall, a poor emigrant, is the sole survivor of a shipwreck off the coast of Kent.
In one of the 'land-stories' Conrad explores the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England; in the other, the plight of a woman ironically trapped by the unwitting alliance of two retired widowers - each blind in his own way.
