Youth, a Narrative

Joseph Conrad

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

Joseph Conrad

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

Joseph Conrad

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 ...

Joseph Conrad

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...

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.