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Excerpt: Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad.

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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... ...thy AUTHOR’S NOTE “NOSTROMO” is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which belong to the period following upon the publication of the “Ty... ...hing for the wrongs of down-trodden nations. They listened to his tales of war readily, but seemed to ask themselves what he had got out of it after a... ...ces had given that small adhesion a fortuitous importance. The fortunes of war served him marvellously, and the victory of Rio Seco (after a day of de... ... At last he shrugged his shoulders as if to assure himself of his disdain. Cold, dull. No intellectuality. Red hair. A true Englishman. He despised hi... ...only shoot; she had stood by her husband’s side perfectly silent, and gone cold all over with excitement at the instant when the first battery of only... ...overcoats and changing plates in Paris at our Legation in the intervals of spy- ing on our refugees there, in the time of Rojas? He will wash out that... ...d stigmatize his brother, the guerrillero, for a combination of lackey and spy. What could be more effective? In local affairs it urges the Provincial...

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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... ...n the world’s great storm of theyear 1914. AUTHOR’S NOTE OF THE THREE LONG NOVELS of mine which suffered an interruption, “The Rescue” was the one tha... ...c, a disc vertical and hot, rolling down to the edge of the horizontal and cold-looking disc of the shining sea. Then the edges touched and the circul... ...back against the sky- light, comfortably. “They say there is going to be a war with China,” he said in a gossiping tone, “and the French are go- ing a... ... about that. What do you think, Captain Lingard?” “I have met their men-of-war in the Pacific,” said Lingard, slowly. “The ships were fine and the fel... ...s attitude, with his back toward the girl who sat on the other side of the cold embers. “Yes; and the moon is waning,” she answered in a low voice. “T... ...rgenson stood by, a skeleton at the gaming table. “Because you are a Dutch spy,” he said, suddenly, in an awful tone. The agent of the Sphinx mark jum... ...ps. “Vat, funf year—berfegtly acquaint—grockery— Verfluchte sponsher. Ich? Spy. Vat for spy? Vordamte English pedlars!” The door slammed. “Is that so?...

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Excerpt: Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad.

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...Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Tales of Unrest... ...ad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...NN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...lked guarded by silence; awed whispers followed him. They called him their war-chief. He was the ruler of three villages on a narrow plain; the master... ...me serenity of attitude and voice. He understood irrigation and the art of war—the qualities of weapons and the craft of boat-building. He could conce... ...s water enough for one he drank it; I covered him up when he shivered with cold; and when the hot sickness came upon him I sat sleepless through many ... .... “A heavy dew seemed to soak through our flesh and made our very entrails cold. The grass, the twigs, the leaves, covered with drops of water, were g... .... Their predecessor had left some torn books. They took up these wrecks of novels, and, as they had never read anything of the kind before, they were ... ...ing at him with wild eyes— emissaries of a distracted mankind intruding to spy upon his pain and his humiliation. It was not to be borne. He rose quic...

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...The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of t... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...Their own masters had not handed the sacred fire into the keeping of their cold and skilful hands. One of those last I remember specially, now gone to... ...miraculous smartness. And they both held. I could have kissed their rough, cold iron palms in gratitude if they had not been buried in slimy mud under... ...ucky, perhaps, in the placing of her masts - who knows? Officers of men-of-war used to come on board to take the exact dimensions of her sail- plan. P... ... perfectability. How will they feel on seeing the illustrations to the sea novels of our day, or of our yesterday? It is impossible to guess. But the ... ...and South Winds are but small princes in the dynasties that make peace and war upon the sea. They never assert themselves upon a 70 The Mirror of the... ..., for, amongst his other perfections, he was a consummate eavesdropper and spy. At the sound of the heavy plop alongside hor- ror held me rooted to th... ...?” I stammered out, bewildered. “And who else? Canallia! He must have been spy- ing on you for days. And he did the whole thing. Absent all day in Bar...

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Excerpt: Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad.

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....................................................................................................................................... 71 AUTOCRACY AND WAR?1905 ............................................................................................................................... 71 THE CRIME OF PARTITION?1919.............................................................

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...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... ...ke a certain South Ameri- can general who used to say that no emergency of war or peace had ever found him “with his boots off”; but I may say that wh... ... time. The time was about a month before the entrance of Roumania into the war, and though, honestly, I had seen already the shadow of coming events I... ...ong ago—in his giddy youth maybe—were about. And the books in question are novels, or, at any rate, were written as novels. I proceed thus cau- tiousl... ...he lifetime of one fleeting generation. 11 Joseph Conrad II OF ALL BOOKS, novels, which the Muses should love, make a serious claim on our compassion... ...oo weary, too guileless to raise the black standard of insurrection. He is cold and homeless and starving. He remem- bers the warmth and the food of t... ...ed. Those persons with gold-rimmed spectacles whose usual occupation is to spy upon the obvious have remarked audibly (on several occasions) that poet... ...y was duly produced, and an exceptionally in- telligent audience stared it coldly off the boards. It ceased to exist. It was a fair and open execution...