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Youth, a Narrative

Joseph Conrad

Book Overview: 

An autobiographical short story. “Youth” is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance. Youth depicts his first journey to the East.”

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .You are a good young man. If you see John—Captain Beard—without his muffler at night, just remind him from me to keep his throat well wrapped up.' 'Certainly, Mrs. Beard,' I said. 'You are a good young man; I noticed how attentive you are to John—to Captain—' The train pulled out suddenly; I took my cap off to the old woman: I never saw her again... Pass the bottle.

"We went to sea next day. When we made that start for Bankok we had been already three months out of London. We had expected to be a fortnight or so—at the outside.

"It was January, and the weather was beautiful—the beautiful sunny winter weather that has more charm than in the summer-time, because it is unexpected, and crisp, and you know it won't, it can't, last long. It's like a windfall, like a godsend, like an unexpected piece of luck.

"It lasted all down the North Sea, all down Channel; and it lasted till we were three hundred miles or . . . Read More

Community Reviews

Youth… The story is based on Joseph Conrad’s personal experience… The tale is written in the very colourful and vivid language and in its tone it is heavy with irony.
You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence. Y

'Pass the bottle', please!

Judea faces a storm. It is a "Do or Die" situation for the crew.

JOSEPH Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the French merchant marine in 1874 and the British one in 1878. His merchant-marine career lasted 19 years,

"O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me she was not an old rattletrap carting about the world a lot of coal for a freight - to me she was the endeavour, the test, the trial of life. I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret - as you would think

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