The six stories in this volume are the result of some three or four years of occasional work. The dates of their writing are far apart, their origins are various.
Joseph Conrad (Polish (1857 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe.