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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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A Penguin Classics edition of “Typhoon,” “Amy Foster,” “Falk,” and “Tomorrow” 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.
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Jun 3, 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.
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.
Mar 1, 2020 · 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 these three sea stories, based on his own experience, Conrad invests his portraits of mundane steamers and their crews with epic qualities of fortitude and courage in the face of overwhelming natural odds.
