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Tales Of Unrest
Tales of Unrest is a collection of five works of short fiction by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad. Four of the five works were previously published as serials in literary journals before appearing in the volume, published in 1898 by T. Fisher Unwin. Stories All of the works in Tales of Unrest, except "The Return" were published as serials before being collected in 1898. The name of the literary journal and date appears after each title. “The Idiots” ( The Savoy, October 1896) “An Outpost of Progress” (Cosmopolis, June–July 1897) “ The Lagoon” (The Cornhill Magazine, January 1897) "Karain" (Blackwood’s Magazine, November 1897) “ The Return” (never appeared as a serial) Critical Assessment When Conrad’s first collection of short fiction appeared in 1898, he was already regarded "a writer of considerable standing and achievement" among critics, though "his popular appeal was limited". Literary critic Albert J. Guerard places ''The Tales of Unrest'' amon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Poles in the United Kingdom#19th century, Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language; though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world. Conrad is considered a Impressionism (literature), literary impressionist by some and an early Literary modernism, modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century Literary realism, realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in ''Lord Jim'', for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frame Story
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Short Story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. Definition The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. The short story is sometimes referred to as a genre. Determining what exactly defines a short story has been recurrently problematic. A classic definition of a short story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Idiots (short Story)
"The Idiots" is a short story by Joseph Conrad, his first to be published. It first appeared in '' The Savoy'' in 1896. The story was included in the Conrad collection '' Tales of Unrest'', published in 1898. Set in Brittany, the story describes a couple whose children have intellectual disability; the strain on the family leads eventually to murder. Background The story was written during Joseph Conrad's honeymoon; he rented a house on Île-Grande, on the north coast of Brittany, from April to August 1896. His wife Jessie later wrote that "much of our Île-Grande life is in that short story.... The stone-cutters are in it, our landlady is in it, and the feeling of our surroundings, perhaps a little more sombrely than the reality", and explained how the story originated: while being driven from Lannion to Île-Grande, the driver pointed out "the idiots", saying "Four - hein. And all in the same family. That's a little too much. And the priests say it's God's will!" “The Idiots ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Savoy (periodical)
''The Savoy'' was a magazine of literature, art, and criticism published in eight numbers from January to December 1896 in London. It featured work by authors such as W. B. Yeats, Max Beerbohm, Joseph Conrad, Aubrey Beardsley and . Only eight issues of the magazine were published: two quarterly (January, April) and six monthly (July-December). The publisher was Leonard Smithers, a controversial friend of Oscar Wilde who was also known as a pornographer. Among other publications by Smithers were rare erotic works and unique items such as books bound in human skin. History ''The Savoy'' was founded as a competitor to ''The Yellow Book'' and to provide work for members of the Decadent movement as it began to decline with the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. The magazine was started by Leonard Smithers, writer Arthur Symons (The Symbolist Movement In Literature) and artist Aubrey Beardsley. It is considered a little magazine, and was described as "a manifesto in revolt against Victori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Outpost Of Progress
"An Outpost of Progress" is a short story written in July 1896 by Joseph Conrad, drawing on his own experience in Belgian Congo. It was published in the magazine Cosmopolis in 1897 and was later collected in Tales of Unrest in 1898. Plot The story deals with two European men, named Kayerts and Carlier, who are assigned to a trading post in a remote part of the African Jungle. There they take part in ivory trading, hoping to financially benefit the company as well as themselves. With no specific tasks or important things to be done, they both become increasingly isolated and demoralized as time goes by. At one point in the story, the native Makola, serving as Kayerts and Carlier's bookkeeper, initiates an exchange of slaves for ivory. Initially Kayerts and Carlier are stunned and scandalized by the idea, yet eventually they accept the deal and aid Makola for his huge profit. Both men are plagued by disease and grow very weak physically towards the end of the story. Finally, a see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmopolis (magazine)
''Cosmopolis: An International Monthly Review'' was a multi-lingual literary magazine published between January 1896 and November 1898. The lead edition of ''Cosmopolis'' was published in London, but local editions of the magazine were also published in Berlin, Paris, and Saint Petersburg. Each edition of ''Cosmopolis'' contained non-fiction articles, literary reviews, and new fiction in English, French, and German; later editions also contained material in Russian. ''Cosmopolis'' was edited by Fernand Ortmans and was published in London by T. Fisher Unwin. It had a circulation of approximately 20,000. Fictional namesake Jack Vance's ''Demon Princes Demon Princes is a series of five science fiction novels by Jack Vance, which cumulatively relate the story of an adventurer, Kirth Gersen, as he exacts his revenge on five notorious criminals, collectively known as the Demon Princes, who carrie ...'' novels have occasional reference to a magazine called ''Cosmopolis'' (no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lagoon
"The Lagoon" is a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in ''The Cornhill Magazine'' in 1897. The story is about a white man, referred to as "Tuan" (the equivalent of "Lord" or "Sir"), who is travelling through an Indonesian rainforest and is forced to stop for the night with a distant Malay friend named Arsat. Upon arriving, he finds Arsat distraught, for his lover is dying. Arsat tells the distant and rather silent man a story of his past. Plot Tuan hops aboard a boat to visit a long-lost friend named Arsat. When he meets Arsat, he finds out his wife, Diamelen, is dying. Arsat then tells him a story, starting with the time when he and his brother kidnapped Diamelen (who was previously a servant of the rajah ''Raja'' (; from , IAST ') is a royal title used for South Asian monarchs. The title is equivalent to king or princely ruler in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The title has a long history in South Asia and Southeast Asia, being atteste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cornhill Magazine
''The Cornhill Magazine'' (1860–1975) was a monthly Victorian magazine and literary journal named after the street address of the founding publisher Smith, Elder & Co. at 65 Cornhill in London.Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, ''Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland''. Ghent: Academia Press and London: British Library, 2009. (p. 145). In the 1860s, under the editorship of William Makepeace Thackeray, the paper's large circulation peaked around 110,000. Due to emerging competitors, circulation fell to 20,000 by 1870. The following year, Leslie Stephen took over as editor. When Stephen left in 1882, circulation had further fallen to 12,000. ''The Cornhill'' was purchased by John Murray in 1912, and continued to publish issues until 1975. History ''The Cornhill'' was founded by George Murray Smith in 1859, and the first issue displayed the cover date January 1860. A literary journal with articles on diverse subjects and serialisations of ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackwood’s Magazine
''Blackwood's Magazine'' was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980. It was founded by the publisher William Blackwood and was originally called the ''Edinburgh Monthly Magazine''. The first number appeared in April 1817 under the editorship of Thomas Pringle and James Cleghorn. The journal was unsuccessful and Blackwood fired Pringle and Cleghorn and relaunched the journal as ''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine'' under his own editorship. The journal eventually adopted the shorter name and from the relaunch often referred to itself as ''Maga''. The title page bore the image of George Buchanan, a 16th-century Scottish historian, religious and political thinker. Description ''Blackwood's'' was conceived as a rival to the Whig-supporting ''Edinburgh Review.'' Compared to the rather staid tone of ''The Quarterly Review'', the other main Tory work, ''Maga'' was ferocious and combative. This is due primarily to the work of its principal writer John Wilson, who w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Return (Conrad Short Story)
“The Return” is a work of short fiction by Joseph Conrad, first published in the collection Tales of Unrest published in 1898 by T. Fisher Unwin. Plot Alvan Hervey is a well-to-do Englishman living in the West End of London with his wife of five years. Tall, good-looking and accomplished in business, Hervey is representative of his social class: conventional, self-complacent, and “eminently proper.” He and his wife limit their social life primarily to a small circle of acquaintances. A well-connected literary gentleman in this circle convinces Hervey to provide funds to publish a society paper. Though skeptical about the paper, and considering the literary figure an “ass”, he warms to the project when it proves profitable. Alvan arrives home early one evening and finds that his wife is not in. To his dismay, he discovers a note from her in the dressing room. Instantly alarmed and deeply offended by this odd breach of decorum, he reads that letter to find that she has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert J
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