Youth, a Narrative (eBook)

Joseph Conrad (Autor)

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2017
53 Seiten
Saga Egmont International (Verlag)
978-91-7639-344-4 (ISBN)

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Youth' is an autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad. It was written in 1898, first published in Blackwood's Magazine, and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. The volume also included Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, which are concerned with maturity and old age, ...

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"e;I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more-the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men."e;Over a shared bottle of wine with friends, Charles Marlow tells a tale of being young and sailing from England to India on a doomed ship. Storms, wrecks, fires. It seemed that whatever could go wrong, went wrong, and the ship's motto "e;Do or Die"e; began to ring eerily true. No one could write adventure stories at sea like Joseph Conrad, whose first-hand accounts brings buckets of authenticity to his writing. 'Youth, a Narrative' (1898) is a tragi-comic portrait of a middle-aged man looking back on his youthful self.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Kopenhagen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 91-7639-344-5 / 9176393445
• ISBN-13: 978-91-7639-344-4 / 9789176393444