By Joseph Conrad
Author of “Lord Jim,” “Youth,” etc.
FALK
ALL that magic of word-painting which has made Conrad’s stories of the sea the wonder of the literary world is here turned to the showing forth of the hearts of men and women. “Falk,” the first story, is the romance of a port-tyrant in the far East, who, in his love for a young girl, confesses that he has once been driven to cannibalism. A more extraordinary study of human passions has never been put into print. “Amy Foster” tells of a strange and beautiful foreigner who, lost by shipwreck on an English countryside, marries a girl there; and of his tragic efforts to make himself a real member of the brutally clannish little community. “To-morrow” is the simple, pathetic, and touching story of an old man who waits for his runaway son to return to him, and is supported in his hopeless expectation by a brave and loving girl-neighbor.
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By Henry Harland
Author of “The Cardinal’s Snuff Box”