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I The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

I The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

I On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes, and crazy ...

CHAPTER 1 He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which mad...

COPYRIGHT, 1897, 1914, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY TO EDWARD GARNETT THIS TALE ABOUT MY FRIENDS OF THE SEA TO MY READERS IN AMERICA From that evening when James Wait...

But the Dwarf answered: No; something human is dearer to me than the wealth of all the world."

"So foul a sky clears not without a storm."

“Be it thy course to being giddy minds With foreign quarrels.” --SHAKESPEARE TO ADOLF P. KRIEGER FOR THE SAKE OF OLD DAYS CONTENTS KARAIN: A MEMORY THE IDIOTS AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS THE ...

Far as the mariner on highest mast Can see all around upon the calmed vast, So wide was Neptune’s hall .

Kennedy is a country doctor, and lives in Colebrook, on the shores of Eastbay.

"I would take liberty from any hand as a hungry man would snatch a piece of bread."

"Worthy of my undying regard" To Borys And All Others Who, Like Himself, Have Crossed In Early Youth The Shadow-Line Of Their Generation With Love PART ONE --_D'autre fois, calme plat, gr...

Contents NOTE TO THE FIRST EDITION AUTHOR'S NOTE PART ONE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN PART TWO CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO ...

_Pues el delito mayor Del hombre es haber nacito_ CALDERON TO EDWARD LANCELOT SANDERSON AUTHOR'S NOTE "An Outcast of the Islands" is my second novel in the absolute sense of the word; second...

_Les petites marionnettes Font, font, font, Trois petits tours Et puis s'en vont_.

'Allas!'

CHAPTER I. "Kaspar!

Contents: Author's note PART I--Letters BOOKS--1905.

A FAMILIAR PREFACE As a general rule we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little friendly pressure.

I For a long time after the course of the steamer _Sofala_ had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter.

Several of us, all more or less connected with the sea, were dining in a small river-hostelry not more than thirty miles from London, and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to ...

Transcribed form the 1914 Methuen & Co.

What was known of Captain Hagberd in the little seaport of Colebrook was not exactly in his favour.

CHARACTERS Captain Hagberd (a retired coasting skipper).

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS “You will fight no more duels now” Frontispiece “Bowing before a sylph-like form reclining on a couch” “The angry clash of arms filled that prim garden” “You take the near...

A Familiar Preface.

THE COMPLETE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF JOSEPH CONRAD AN INDEX Edited by David Widger Project Gutenberg Editions Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 (Korzeniowski, Josef Teodor Konrad) CONTENTS ...

GARDEN CITY, N. Y. CONTENTS The Warrior’s Soul Prince Roman The Tale The Black Mate THE WARRIOR’S SOUL (1917) The old officer with long white moustaches gave rein to his indignation.

I A Revolutionary war raises many strange characters out of the obscurity which is the common lot of humble lives in an undisturbed state of society.

ALMAYER'S FOLLY I am informed that in criticizing that literature which preys on strange people and prowls in far-off countries, under the shade of palms, in the unsheltered glare of sunbeaten be...

I believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper.