Twixt Land and Sea Tales (Classic Reprint)

Twixt Land and Sea Tales (Classic Reprint)
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2015-07-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781440033124

Excerpt from Twixt Land and Sea Tales Ever since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided gently in smooth water. After a sixty day's passage I was anxious to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics. The more enthusiastic of its inhabitants delight in describing it as the "Pearl of the Ocean." Well, let us call it the "Pearl." It's a good name. A pearl distilling much sweetness upon the world. This is only a way of telling you that first-rate sugar-cane is grown there. All the population of the Pearl lives for it and by it. Sugar is their daily bread, as it were. And I was coming to them for a cargo of sugar in the hope of the crop having been good and of the freights being high. Mr. Burns, my chief mate, made out the land first; and very soon I became entranced by this blue, pinnacled apparition, almost transparent against the light of the sky, a mere emanation, the astral body of an island risen to greet me from afar. It is a rare phenomenon, such a sight of the Pearl at sixty miles off. And I wondered half seriously whether it was a good omen, whether what would meet me in that island would be as luckily exceptional as this beautiful, dreamlike vision so very few seamen have been privileged to behold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Twixt Land and Sea

Twixt Land and Sea
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1983
Genre: Talking books
ISBN: 1427042098

Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism

Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism
Author: John Cant
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136094989

This overview of McCarthy’s published work to date, including: the short stories he published as a student, his novels, stage play and TV film script, locates him as a icocolastic writer, engaged in deconstructing America’s vision of itself as a nation with an exceptionalist role in the world. Introductory chapters outline his personal background and the influences on his early years in Tennessee whilst each of his works is dealt with in a separate chapter listed in chronological order of publication.

Delphi Collected Works of Hugh Walpole (Illustrated)

Delphi Collected Works of Hugh Walpole (Illustrated)
Author: Hugh Walpole
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 6612
Release: 2017-04-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 178656078X

The English novelist Sir Hugh Walpole was a bestselling author of the 1920’s and 1930’s, supported by Henry James and Arnold Bennett. Highly regarded for his vivid plots and skill at scene-setting, Walpole wrote prolifically, producing at least one book every year and his novels established a large readership in Britain and America. This comprehensive eBook presents Walpole’s collected works, featuring all the novels in the US public domain, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Walpole’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 13 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * A selection of Walpole’s non-fiction, including his seminal study of Anthony Trollope, available in no other collection * Features Walpole’s autobiography - discover Walpole’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: 24 novels and several short story collections published after 1922 cannot appear in this collection due to copyright. When new texts enter the public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels THE WOODEN HORSE MARADICK AT FORTY MR. PERRIN AND MR. TRAILL THE PRELUDE TO ADVENTURE FORTITUDE THE DUCHESS OF WREXE THE DARK FOREST THE GREEN MIRROR THE SECRET CITY JEREMY THE CAPTIVES THE YOUNG ENCHANTED THE CATHEDRAL The Shorter Fiction THE GOLDEN SCARECROW THE THIRTEEN TRAVELLERS Selected Non-Fiction JOSEPH CONRAD THE ART OF JAMES BRANCH CABELL ANTHONY TROLLOPE The Autobiography THE CRYSTAL BOX Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad

The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad
Author: J. H. Stape
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1996-06-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521484848

Leading scholars provide a comprehensive introduction to the work of Joseph Conrad.

Joseph Conrad's Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more

Joseph Conrad's Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 1575
Release: 2015-11-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8026846451

This carefully crafted ebook: "Joseph Conrad's Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. TABLE OF CONTENTS Novels & Short Stories: The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea The Shadow Line Typhoon 'Twixt Land and Sea A Smile of Fortune The Secret Sharer Freya of the Seven Isles The Rescue Falk: A Reminiscence An Outcast of the Islands Autobiographical: A Personal Record; or Some Reminiscences The Mirror of the Sea Notes on Life & Letters Biography & Critical Essays: Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh Walpole Joseph Conrad by John Albert Macy A Conrad Miscellany by John Albert Macy Joseph Conrad by Virginia Woolf