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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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