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TYPHOON: and Other Stories
by Conrad, Joseph
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1903. First UK edition. One of only 1,500 copies (per Wise) of the first issue with windmill device on title page and without "Reserved for Colonies only" notice on half-title verso. Adds three stories not in the U.S. edition -- "Amy Foster," "Falk," and "To-Morrow" -- and incorporates Conrad's final revisions to the title story, "Typhoon," not found in the U.S. edition. Cagle's binding "b" ("a" is presumed to be a trial binding) with only the top edge trimmed and with 110 mm between "Conrad" and "Heinemann" on spine. 8vo gilt-stamped, slate-gray cloth boards; 304 pages; this copy with 32-page publisher's catalog inserted at rear (noted both with and without). Very good with endpapers lightly foxed, minor wear to spine ends and corners, and subtle bubbling to spine cloth. NO COMPARABLE U.S. EDITION
Synopsis
In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate, the differences between instinct and intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival. 'Falk', the companion sea-story, contrasts, as Conrad once put it, 'common sentimentalism with the frank standpoint of a more or less primitive man', a man with a conscience, however, about the girl he desires. 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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- Quill & Brush
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53768
- Title
- TYPHOON: and Other Stories
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
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