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...This generalization is so incomplete as to be seriously misleading. Captain MacWhirr may be stoical but he scarcely represents an Anglo-Saxon ideal. And from the expostulations of Babalatchi in "An Outcast of the Islands" to the tragic portrait of Charles Could, the typical British man of action, in "Nostromo," Conrad mercilessly exposed that Anglo-Saxon habit of sentimentalizing one's desires, best known as the doctrine of "the white man's burden," which has built the Empire. No, Kipling ideals cannot be found in the work of Conrad...
...noisy and witch-rapping harridan, Mrs. Peterkin has skillfully given a convincing portrayal of the community as a whole. The best of the individual portraits is that of the old negro foreman, whose duty it is to see that all runs smoothly on the plantation. Like Conrad's Nostromo among the cargadores, he stands erect and aloof from his fellows. His contempt for the "pobuckras," as the negroes term white people of mean extraction, is equalled only by the amused disdain in which he holds Yankees and other commercial persons. The little white church in the grove he has never...
Almayer's Folly, 1895; An Outcast of the Islands, 1896; The Nigger of the Narcissus, 1897; Tales of Unrest, 1898; Lord Jim, 1900; Youth and Other Tales, 1902; Typhoon, 1903; Nostromo, 1904; The Mirror of the Sea, 1906; A Set of Six, 1908; Under Western Eyes, 1911; Chance, 1914; Victory, 1915; Within the Tides, 1915; The Arrow of Gold, 1919; The Rescue, 1920; Notes on Life and Letters, 1921; The Rover...
...Significance. Mr. Conrad's first novel after a three years' silence belongs with Victory, Rescue, Nostromo and the other major masterpieces of his work. The style is a little simpler, a little less gorgeous, than in some of his novels. But it is no less masterly, and the men and women described are so wholly alive that they haunt the mind. Peyrol himself deserves a place beside Lingard and Heyst and the other great wanderers, and throughout the pages of The Rover, Mr. Conrad gives us anew that impression of space and completion that is stamped upon...
...from a boyhood in inland Poland to the life of an English sea-captain and later to the writing of some of the finest of modern English novels is as strangely adventurous as any tale he has ever told. His principal works include Chance, Victory, Lord Jim, Rescue, Nostromo, Youth, Under Western Eyes...