Typhoon and Other Stories

Classics

Author: Joseph Conrad

Four classic stories of the sea by Joseph Conrad: Typhoon (1902), Amy Foster (1901), Falk (1903) and Tomorrow (1902),,These powerful stories, as Conrad critic Paul Kirschner has observed, present “a chiaroscuro of sea and land life in an alternating rhythm of hope and despair.” In Typhoon, a storm upends a captain’s complacency, hurling him and his crew into a terrifying bat….Read More

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