Typhoon E-Book

Joseph Conrad

• Herausgeber: Maria
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Typhon is a classic story of the sea. The long story describes the exploits of Captain MacWhirr in dealing with a tropical typhoon under the command of the steamer Nan-Shan. The novel is set in a ship between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. MacWhirr, a stolid man, shy and simple, ignored by his family, exploited by his wife and mocked by his crew, refuses to change course to avoid the arrival of a typhoon: however, his iron determination in facing him redeem him in the eyes of his subjected.

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Table of Contents

AUTHOR’S NOTE

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TYPHOON

by Joseph Conrad

First digital edition 2018 by Maria Ruggieri

Far as the mariner on highest mast

Can see all around upon the calmed vast,

So wide was Neptune’s hall . . . KEATS

AUTHOR’S NOTE

The main characteristic of this volume consists in this, that all the stories composing it belong not only to the same period but have been written one after another in the order in which they appear in the book.

The period is that which follows on my connection with Blackwood’s Magazine. I had just finished writing “The End of the Tether” and was casting about for some subject which could be developed in a shorter form than the tales in the volume of “Youth” when the instance of a steamship full of returning coolies from Singapore to some port in northern China occurred to my recollection. Years before I had heard it being talked about in the East as a recent occurrence. It was for us merely one subject of conversation amongst many others of the kind. Men earning their bread in any very specialized occupation will talk shop, not only because it is the most vital interest of their lives but also because they have not much knowledge of other subjects. They have never had the time to get acquainted with them. Life, for most of us, is not so much a hard as an exacting taskmaster.