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The End of the Tether : and Other Stories
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) Joseph Conrad


(Conrad) thought of civilised and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might break and let the unwary sink into fiery depths
- Bertrand Russell

This selection of four tales by Conrad is about radical insecurity: lone human beings involuntarily forced into confrontation with a terrifying universe in which they can never be wholly at home. It leads with The End of the Tether and includes also The Duel, The Return, and Amy Foster - Sailor, Soldier, Rich Man, Immigrant. These powerful shorter works remind readers that Conrad is not just the teller of sea stories and tales of imperialist action, and not only the author of the
ubiquitous Heart of Darkness. This is the Conrad who is master of the terror element - global crisis, individual test, and personal trauma - in modern literature.

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Product details

Format Paperback | 368 pages
Dimensions 130 x 196 x 15mm | 254g
Publication date 10 Feb 2023
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN10 0192896822
ISBN13 9780192896827
Bestsellers rank 60,376