tailieunhanh - Joseph Conrad - The Rescue

I must believe that in this case I have not been impudent for I am not conscious of having been bitten. The truth is that when "The Rescue" was laid aside it was not laid aside in despair. Several reasons contributed to this abandonment and, no doubt, the first of them was the growing sense of general difficulty in the handling of the subject. The contents and the course of the story I had | The Rescue Conrad Joseph Published 1920 Categorie s Fiction Source http 1 About Conrad Joseph Conrad born Teodor Józef Konrad Korzeniowski 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924 was a Polish-born novelist. Some of his works have been labelled romantic Conrad s supposed romanticism is heavily imbued with irony and a fine sense of man s capacity for self-deception. Many critics regard Conrad as an important forerunner of Modernist literature. Conrad s narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers including Ernest Hemingway . Lawrence Graham Greene Joseph Heller and Jerzy Kosinski as well as inspiring such films as Apocalypse Now which was drawn from Conrad s Heart of Darkness . Source Wikipedia Also available on Feedbooks for Conrad Heart of Darkness 1902 Lord Jim 1900 The Secret Agent 1907 A Personal Record 1912 Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard 1904 The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 The Duel 1908 An Outpost of Progress 1896 The Lagoon 1897 The Informer 1906 Copyright This work is available for countries where copyright is Life 70 and in the USA. Note This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http Strictly for personal use do not use this file for commercial purposes. 2 Author s Note Of the three long novels of mine which suffered an interruption The Rescue was the one that had to wait the longest for the good pleasure of the Fates. I am betraying no secret when I state here that it had to wait precisely for twenty years. I laid it aside at the end of the summer of 1898 and it was about the end of the summer of 1918 that I took it up again with the firm determination to see the end of it and helped by the sudden feeling that I might be equal to the task. This does not mean that I turned to it with elation. I was well aware and perhaps even too much aware of the dangers of such an adventure. The amazingly sympathetic kindness which men of various temperaments diverse views and different literary tastes have been .