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    One Day More A Play In One Act
    One Day More A Play In One Act
    One Day More A Play In One Act
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    One Day More A Play In One Act

    By Joseph Conrad

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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    Joseph Conrad

    Polish author Joseph Conrad is considered to be one of the greatest English-language novelists, a remarkable achievement considering English was not his first language. Conrad’s literary works often featured a nautical setting, reflecting the influences of his early career in the Merchant Navy, and his depictions of the struggles of the human spirit in a cold, indifferent world are best exemplified in such seminal works as Heart of Darkness, Lord JimM, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, and Typhoon. Regarded as a forerunner of modernist literature, Conrad’s writing style and characters have influenced such distinguished writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, and George Orwell, among many others. Many of Conrad’s novels have been adapted for film, most notably Heart of Darkness, which served as the inspiration and foundation for Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

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      One Day More A Play In One Act - Joseph Conrad

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of One Day More, by Joseph Conrad

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      Title: One Day More

             A Play In One Act

      Author: Joseph Conrad

      Release Date: January 29, 2006 [EBook #17621]

      Last Updated: November 17, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ONE DAY MORE ***

      Produced by David Widger

      ONE DAY MORE

      A PLAY IN ONE ACT

      BY JOSEPH CONRAD

      Contents

      CHARACTERS

      Captain Hagberd (a retired coasting skipper).

      Josiah Carvil (formerly a shipbuilder—a widower—blind).

      Harry Hagberd (son of Captain Hagberd, who as a boy ran away from home).

      A Lamplighter.

      Bessie Carvil (daughter of Josiah Carvil).

      SCENE

      A small sea port.

      To right, two yellow brick cottages belonging to Captain Hagberd, one inhabited by himself the other by the Carvils. A lamp-post in front. The red roofs of the town in the background. A sea-wall to left.

      Time: The present-early autumn, towards dusk.

      ONE DAY MORE

      SCENE I.

      CURTAIN RISES DISCLOSING CARVIL and Bessie moving away from sea-wall. Bessie about twenty-five. Black dress; black straw hat. A lot of mahogany-coloured hair loosely done up. Pale face. Full figure. Very quiet. Carvil, blind, unwieldy. Reddish whiskers; slow, deep voice produced without effort. Immovable, big face.

      Carvil (Hanging heavily on Bessie's arm). Careful! Go slow! (Stops; Bessie waits patiently.) Want your poor blind father to break his neck? (Shuffles on.) In a hurry to get home and start that everlasting yarn with your chum the lunatic?

      Bessie. I am not in a hurry to get home, father.

      Carvil. Well, then, go steady with a poor blind man. Blind! Helpless! (Strikes the ground with his stick.) Never mind! I've had time to make enough money to have ham and eggs for breakfast every morning—thank God! And thank God, too, for it, girl. You haven't known a single hardship in all the days of your idle life. Unless you think that a blind, helpless father———-

      Bessie. What is there for me to be in a hurry for?

      Carvil. What did you say?

      Bessie. I said there was nothing for me to hurry home for.

      Carvil. There is, tho'. To yarn with a lunatic. Anything to get away from your duty.

      Bessie. Captain Hagberd's talk never hurt you or anybody else.

      Carvil. Go on. Stick up for your only friend.

      Bessie. Is it my fault that I haven't another soul to speak to?

      Carvil (Snarls). It's mine, perhaps. Can I help being blind? You fret because you want to be gadding about—with a helpless man left all alone at home. Your own father too.

      Bessie. I haven't been away from you half a day since mother died.

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