"Within the Tides: Tales" by Joseph Conrad is a compilation of short stories from the early 1900s that uses a colonial backdrop to inspect universal themes of humanity, moral decisions, and difficult relationships. The story "The Planter of Malata" starts with Geoffrey Renouard, a young planter who has just come back to a developed area after living alone for years on Malata, an isolated island. He talks with a newspaper editor about recently meeting a fascinating woman at dinner. Renouard's loneliness from his solitary life on Malata makes him fixate on the woman, foreshadowing problems as he deals with societal expectations and his internal problems.
Within the Tides: Tales
By Joseph Conrad
A solitary planter's return to society is complicated by his growing fascination with a mysterious woman, revealing his inner conflicts against a colonial setting laden with human complexity.
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1997-09-01
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About the AuthorJoseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became 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.
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became 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.
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