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出版社:WORDSWORTH
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ISBN:1853261904
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作者:Joseph Conrad著
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頁數:238
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出版日期:1997-01-01
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印刷日期:1997-01-01
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包裝:平裝
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版次:1
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印次:1
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This specially commissioned selection of Conrads matchless short stories includes such favourites as Youth. a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer. a thrilling psychological drama: An Outpost of Progress.a blackly comic prelude to Heart of Darkness; Amy Foster. a moving story of a shipwrecked, alienated Pole: and The Lagoon and Karain. two exotic, exciting Malay tales. II Conde and The Tale are subtle portrayals of bewildered outrage: An Anarchist and The Infomer are sardonic depictions of revolutionaries:and Prince Roman is a tale of magnificent, doomed heroisrn set in Conrads native Poland during the Uprising of 1831. Both those new to Conrads work and those familiar with his novels will delight in this wide-ranging collection.
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The eleven short stories in this edition are taken from six of
Conrads seven collections of stories, tales, and nouvelles or long
short stories.Looseness of definitions here is deliberate because
Conrad, like his publishers and such contemporaries as Henry
James, used them unsystematically for any fiction where concision
and rigorous selection were operative principles. Moreover, it is
still evident today that subsequent attempts either to arrive at
firm definitions of, or to distinguish between, tale, sketch and
short story, are impossible (Shaw, 2o-1) and, I think,
unrewarding. I prefer short story because short alerts us to the
formal shaping, wroughtness and brevity treasured by Conrad and by
such different practitioners as Poe, James and Kipling;, and
because story retains a sense of the human teller and listener so
characteristic of Conrads framed narratives. I take
short,following Poe, to refer to any story that can be read
comfortably in from a half-hour to one or two hours…
This specially commissioned selection of Conrads matchless short stories includes such favourites as Youth. a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer. a thrilling psychological drama: An Outpost of Progress.a blackly comic prelude to Heart of Darkness; Amy Foster. a moving story of a shipwrecked, alienated Pole: and The Lagoon and Karain. two exotic, exciting Malay tales. II Conde and The Tale are subtle portrayals of bewildered outrage: An Anarchist and The Infomer are sardonic depictions of revolutionaries:and Prince Roman is a tale of magnificent, doomed heroisrn set in Conrads native Poland during the Uprising of 1831. Both those new to Conrads work and those familiar with his novels will delight in this wide-ranging collection.
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Introduction Works Cited Bibliography Textual Note from TALES OF UNREST 1898 An Outpost of Progress The Lagoon Karain: A Memory from YOUTH: A NARRATIVE AND OTHER STORIES 1902 Youth: A Narrative from TYPHOON AND OTHER STORIES 19o3 Amy Foster from A SET OF SIX 19o8 An Anarchist (A Desperate Tale) The Informer (An Ironic Tale) I1 Conde (A Pathetic Tale) from TWIXT LAND AND SEA 1912 The Secret Sharer from TALES OF HEARSAY 1925 Prince Roman The Tale
Introduction Works Cited Bibliography Textual Note from TALES OF UNREST 1898 An Outpost of Progress The Lagoon Karain: A Memory from YOUTH: A NARRATIVE AND OTHER STORIES 1902 Youth: A Narrative from TYPHOON AND OTHER STORIES 1903 Amy Foster from A SET OF SIX 1908 An Anarchist (A Desperate Tale) The Informer (An Ironic Tale) I1 Conde (A Pathetic Tale) from TWIXT LAND AND SEA 1912 The Secret Sharer from TALES OF HEARSAY 1925 Prince Roman The Tale
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