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TYPHOON and Other Stories
de Conrad, Joseph
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- Muy bueno
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- First
- Estado
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Sobre este artículo
London: William Heinemann, 1903. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. First Issue, (2)pp. ads, 304pp., 32pp. ads at rear. With the windmill device on title page; bound in dark gray cloth pictorially stamped in gilt depicting a lifesaver; spine lettering gilt; internally clean and bright with two small spots of bubbling to cloth.
Sinopsis
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. In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate, the differences between instinct and intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival. 'Falk', the companion sea-story, contrasts, as Conrad once put it, 'common sentimentalism with the frank standpoint of a more or less primitive man', a man with a conscience, however, about the girl he desires. In one of the 'land-stories' Conrad explores the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England; in the other, the plight of a woman ironically trapped by the unwitting alliance of two retired widowers - each blind in his own way.
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- Librería
- Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0585
- Título
- TYPHOON and Other Stories
- Autor
- Conrad, Joseph
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard Cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Dust Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- William Heinemann
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1903
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- Device
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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