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The End of the Tether
Joseph Conrad
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"I sent word of it to the officers' quarters in the Sailors' Home," he continued, while the limp in his gait seemed to grow more accentuated with the increasing irritation of his voice. "Place's full of them. Twice as many men as there are berths going in the local trade. All hungry for an easy job. Twice as many—and—What d'you think, Whalley? . . ."
He stopped short; his hands clenched and thrust deeply downwards, seemed ready to burst the pockets of his jacket. A slight sigh escaped Captain Whalley.
"Hey? You would think they would be falling over each other. Not a bit of it. Frightened t. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Add�o capitano Whalley, add�o "serang" C'� poco in questo libro, tolto il Mare, La Vita, Dio, il Ricordo, il Rispetto, la Malattia, l'Amicizia, il Tradimento, la Morte, la Vigliaccheria, la Pusillanimit�, la Fede, la Speranza, la Giovent� e la Vecchiaia, la Lotta, l'Occidente e l'Oriente, il Bianco
The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad demonstrates again his mastery of prose fiction forms. In this case Conrad has written a novella about a sea captain named Whalley who has had a financial disaster at the end of a distinguished career. All he wants is to leave his only daughter some money to he
Novela marinera.
Una decina di anni prima dell’uscita di All’estremo limite Emile Zola pubblicava Il denaro, la storia di una colossale e catastrofica speculazione finanziaria ispirata a un evento realmente accaduto nel 1882; poco tempo dopo, nel 1914, Theodore Dreiser scrive Il Titano, ispirato alla figura del fina
SPOILERS ahead, but this is Joseph Conrad we're talking about. His style is the star. His work is essentially spoiler-proof.
This novella (which, by today's standards, would be termed a short novel) shows Conrad's gift of sympathy. Captain Whalley, twenty-five years after losing his wife, prepares fo
A sea captain's final journey
28 March 2015
I would say that this is just another story about a sea journey, but then again it was written by Joseph Conrad, and despite the three stories that I have read being about ships and journeys, I simply cannot describe it using the words 'just another'. The b