and gave him two classical examples of makeshifts out of a text- book. In exchange he described to ...
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conversing of Island affairs. Upon my word, I heard the mutter of Almayer's name faintly at midnigh...
body. The whole crew of the steamer, with the exception of firemen and engineers, rushed up the jet...
In the career of the most unliterary of writers, in the sense that literary ambition had never ente...
a mere "notice," as it were the relation of a journey where nothing but the distances and the geolo...
B. was the senior captain of his regiment. Some time before he had been made head of the remount es...
of celebrity in the last decade of the departed century. Other books followed. Not many. He had not...
"You might tell me something of your life while you are dressing," he suggested kindly. I do not t...
grandson, of the servants whose friendly faces had been familiar to me in my early childhood. As a ...
terms. Not by Captain Littlehales, however, and I wish to reply to what he says with all possible d...
At this stage of the narrative, which I heard many times (by request) from the lips of Captain Nich...
Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad A Familiar Preface. As a general rule we do not want much enc...
hygienic or conscientious were surely imaginative, his calves exposed to the public gaze and to the...
suspected in the effort to bring into play the extremities of emotions the debasing touch of insinc...
them the Polish corps of Prince Joseph Poniatowski), jammed hopelessly in the streets, were being s...