"Amy Foster" by Joseph Conrad is a touching story that looks at themes of being alone, cultural divides, and love through the experiences of a man from Central Europe who survives a shipwreck and ends up on the English coast. The story shows the differences between the main character's unusual background and the ordinary lives of the English villagers he meets. Yanko, the survivor, is found by Amy Foster, a regular girl from a local family. Yanko struggles to fit in and faces unkindness from the villagers, who see him as different. Despite this, he and Amy become close, and she treats him with kindness. They fall in love and get married, but cultural problems and feeling cut off lead to a sad ending. The story ends with a strong feeling of loss, highlighting ideas about caring for others, identity, and feeling lonely even when connected to others.
Amy Foster
By Joseph Conrad
A stranger from a faraway land finds love and tragedy when he washes ashore in a small English village, facing prejudice and isolation despite forming a tender bond with a local girl.
Summary
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.
More Like This
Explore books similar to the one you're viewing
Drifted ashore; $b or, a child without a name
By Evelyn Everett-Green
Larkspur
By Jane Abbott
The English Orphans; Or, A Home in the New World
By Mary Jane Holmes
A Window in Thrums
By J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
A Village Ophelia, and Other Stories
By Anne Reeve Aldrich
The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
More by This Author
Discover other books written by the same author
Related by Category
Discover books in the same genre or category
The Education of Catholic Girls
By Janet Erskine Stuart
Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-Workers, Their Trades and Their Lives
By Helen Campbell
Lolly Willowes : $b or, the loving huntsman
By Sylvia Townsend Warner
Running to Waste: The Story of a Tomboy
By George M. (George Melville) Baker
The Women's Victory—and After: Personal Reminiscences, 1911-1918
By Millicent Garrett Fawcett
What Every Woman Knows
By J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie