Joseph Conrad

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. What was known of Captain Hagberd in the little seaport of Colebrook was not exactly in his favour. He did not belong to the place. He had come to settle there under circumstances not at all mysterious- he used to be very communicative about them at the time-...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Several of us, all more or less connected with the sea, were dining in a small river-hostelry not more than thirty miles from London, and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to which our coasting men give the grandiose name of...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Kennedy is a country doctor, and lives in Colebrook, on the shores of Eastbay. The high ground rising abruptly behind the red roofs of the little town crowds the quaint High Street against the wall which defends it from the sea. Beyond the sea-wall there...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak- the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning....

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Of the five stories in this volume, The Lagoon, the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. 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....