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by Joseph Conrad
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Tales Of Unrest Summary
| We knew him in those unprotected days when we were content to hold in our hands our lives and our property. None of us, I believe, has any property now, and I hear that many, negligently, have lost their lives; but I am sure that the few who survive are not yet so dim-eyed as to miss in the befogged respectability of their newspapers the intelligence of various native risings in the Eastern Archipelago. Sunshine gleams between the lines of those short paragraphs—sunshine and the glitter of the sea. A strange name wakes up memories; the printed words scent the smoky atmosphere of to-day faintly, with the subtle and penetrating perfume as of land breezes breathing through the starlight of bygone nights; a signal fire gleams like a jewel on the high brow of a sombre cliff; great trees, the advanced sentries of immense forests, stand watchful and still over sleeping stretches of open water; a line of white surf thunders on an empty beach, the shallow water foams on the reefs; and green islets scattered through the calm of noonday lie upon the level of a polished sea, like a handful of emeralds on a buckler of steel. |
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' Tales Of Unrest |
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| The master writer of introspective tales of adventure returns to his usual haunts in this collection of short stories. "The Lagoon," Conrad's first short story, is set in Malaya. "An Outpost of Progress" takes place in Central Africa. Few writers better create a sense of exotic place and inner struggle. |
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| who maintained that his name was Henry Price. However, for some reason or other, the natives down the river had given him the name of Makola, and it stuck to him through all his wanderings about the country. He spoke English and French with a warbling accent, wrote a beautiful hand, understood bookkeeping, and cherished in his innermost heart the worship of evil spirits. |
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| The master writer of introspective tales of adventure returns to his usual haunts in this collection of short stories. "The Lagoon," Conrad's first short story, is set in Malaya. "An Outpost of Progress" takes place in Central Africa. Few writers better create a sense of exotic place and inner struggle. |
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