Sinopsis

In these four stories Joseph Conrad explores alienation, danger and exploitation in strange worlds, at sea and a land. 'Typhoon' portrays a captain and his first mate as they face a deadly storm, while 'Falk', the companion sea-story, is a tale of love and the struggle for survival amid hideous moral disintegration. With his two stories set on land, Conrad explores the isolation of an Eastern European immigrant in a Kent village in 'Amy Foster', and expresses the plight of a woman exploited by two retired widowers in 'Tomorrow'. All these works, written between 1900 and 1902, show individuals hemmed in by circumstances beyond their control in rigid, onclosed societies. Part of a major series of new editions of Conrad's most famous works in Penguin Classics, this volume contains a chronology, further reading, notes, glossaries and a introduction discussing the background, themes and technique of each story and highlighting the contrasts and continuities between them.