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Amy Foster
Joseph Conrad
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Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk. The one exception is the loving, if dull-witted, Miss Foster.
Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk. The one exception is the loving, if dull-witted, Miss Foster.
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The doctor pointed with his whip, and from the summit of the descent seen over the rolling tops of the trees in a park by the side of the road, appeared the level sea far below us, like the floor of an immense edifice inlaid with bands of dark ripple, with still trails of glitter, ending in a belt of glassy water at the foot of the sky. The light blur of smoke, from an invisible steamer, faded on the great clearness of the horizon like the mist of a breath on a mirror; and, inshore, the white sails of a coaster, with the appearance of disentangling themselves slowly from under the branches, floated clear of the foliage of the trees.
"Shipwrecked in the bay?" I said.
"Yes; he was a castaway. A poor emigrant from Central Europe bound to America and washed ashore here in a storm. And for him, who knew nothing of the earth, England was an undiscovered country. It was some time before he learned its name; and for all I kno. . . Read More
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If it hadn’t been for the steel cross at Miss Swaffer’s belt he would not, he confessed, have known whether he was in a Christian country at all.
A foreigner is shipwrecked off the coast of an English town and finds himself rejected by virtually all the townsfolk save one young woman. A beautiful an
Joseph Conrad and I have been on a break since his
Victory
defeated me heavily. Five years had passed and I felt ready to make amends. I hoped Amy Foster (1901) would be a breakthrough. Besides, a Polish protagonist piqued my interest immediately.
What is the difference between this short story a
Μολονότι το ολιγοσέλιδο αυτό διήγημα περιστρέφεται κυρίως γύρω από την περιπέτεια του Γιάνκο Γκούραλ, ενός βουνίσιου από την Ανατολική οροσειρά των Καρπαθίων, που το ναυάγιο του μεταναστευτικού πλοίου στο οποίο επέβαινε με προορισμό (ποιόν άλλο;) την Αμερική τον ξέβρασε αβοήθητο και μόνο στις ακτές
This was my first, well, anything by this author but even though this was pretty short, there was a lot packed into it. I definitely want to explore his work some more.