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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was born to Polish parents in the Ukraine on 3rd December 1857. He grew up surrounded by upheaval. His father was exiled to northern Russia for political activities and although they eventually returned to Poland, Conrad was orphaned by the age of 11. Subsequently he was taught by his uncle, a great influence and mentor. Leaving for Marseilles in 1874, Conrad began his training as a seaman. After an attempt at suicide, Conrad joined the British merchant navy and became a British subject in 1886. After his first novel, Almayer's Folly was published in 1895 he left the sea behind and settled down to a life of writing. Indeed, as his wife wrote in 1927, he would move only "from his table to his bed, for days and days on end". Troubled financially for many years, he faced uncomplimentary critics and an indifferent public. He finally became a popular success with Chance (1913). By the end of his life on 3rd August 1924 his status as one of the great writers of his time was assured.
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Typhoon by Joseph Conrad (Illustrated) - Joseph Conrad
The Complete Works of
JOSEPH CONRAD
VOLUME 6 OF 51
Typhoon
Parts Edition
By Delphi Classics, 2013
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JOSEPH CONRAD
IN 51 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
The Novels and Novellas
1, Almayer’s Folly
2, An Outcast of the Islands
3, The Nigger of the Narcissus
4, Lord Jim
5, The Inheritors
6, Typhoon
7, Heart of Darkness
8, Romance
9, Nostromo
10, The Secret Agent
11, Under Western Eyes
12, Chance
13, Victory
14, The Shadow-Line
15, The Arrow of Gold
16, The Rescue
17, The Nature of a Crime
18, The Rover
19, Suspense
The Short Stories
20, The Black Mate
21, The Idiots
22, The Lagoon
23, An Outpost of Progress
24, The Return
25, Karain: A Memory
26, Youth
27, Falk
28, Amy Foster
29, To-Morrow
30, The End of the Tether
31, Gaspar Ruiz
32, The Informer
33, The Brute
34, An Anarchist
35, The Duel
36, Il Conde
37, A Smile of Fortune
38, The Secret Sharer
39, Freya of the Seven Isles
40, Prince Roman
41, The Planter of Malata
42, The Partner
43, The Inn of the Two Witches
44, Because of the Dollars
45, The Warrior’s Soul
46, The Tale
The Essays
47, Notes on Life and Letters
48, Last Essays
The Memoirs
49, The Mirror of the Sea
50, A Personal Record
The Criticism
51, The Criticism
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Typhoon
This classic novella was published in the Pall Mall Gazette between January and March 1902. It appeared separately in book form later that year, when it was published in New York by Putnam. The year 1903 saw the novella’s first British publication as part of Typhoon and Other Stories, which also saw the first book publication of the stories ‘Amy Foster’, ‘Falk’ and ‘To-Morrow’.
While the characters are original, the novel draws heavily on Conrad’s experiences as a seaman – indeed the character of Jukes may well be a self-portrait of the author as a young man. The story centres on Captain MacWhirr’s decision to sail his ship, the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan, into the eye of a tropical storm. According to a note on the story written by Conrad in 1919, however, the main interest for him was ‘not the bad weather, but the extraordinary complication brought into the ship’s life at a moment of exceptional stress by the human element below her deck’.
Cover of the first edition
CONTENTS
AUTHOR’S NOTE
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TYPHOON
Far as the mariner on highest mast
Can see all around upon the calmed vast,
So wide was Neptune’s hall . . . — KEATS
AUTHOR’S NOTE
The main characteristic of this volume consists in this, that all the stories composing it belong not only to the same period but have been written one after another in the order in which they appear in the book.
The period is that which follows on my connection with Blackwood’s Magazine. I had just finished writing The End of the Tether
and was casting about for some subject which could be developed in a shorter form than the tales in the volume of Youth
when the instance of a steamship full of returning coolies from Singapore to some port in northern China occurred to my recollection. Years before I had heard it being talked about in the East as a recent occurrence. It was for us merely one subject of conversation amongst many others of the kind. Men earning their bread in any very specialized occupation will talk shop, not only because it is the most vital interest of their lives but also because they have not much knowledge of other subjects. They have never had the time to get acquainted with them. Life, for most of us, is not so much a hard as an exacting taskmaster.
I never met anybody personally concerned in this affair, the interest of which for us was, of course, not the bad weather but the extraordinary complication brought into the ship’s life at a moment of exceptional stress by the human element below her deck. Neither was the story itself ever enlarged upon in my hearing. In that company each of us could imagine easily what the whole thing was like. The financial difficulty of it, presenting also a human problem, was solved by a mind much too simple to be perplexed by anything in the world except men’s idle talk for which it was not adapted.
From the first the mere anecdote, the mere statement I might say, that such a thing had happened on the high seas, appeared to me a sufficient subject for meditation. Yet it was but a bit of a sea yarn after all. I felt that to bring out its deeper significance which was quite apparent to me, something other, something more was required; a leading motive that would harmonize all these violent noises, and a point of view that would put all that elemental fury into its proper place.
What was needed of course was Captain MacWhirr. Directly I perceived him I could see that he was the man for the situation. I don’t mean to say that I ever saw Captain MacWhirr in the flesh, or had ever come in contact with his literal mind and his dauntless temperament. MacWhirr is not an acquaintance of a few hours, or a few weeks, or a few months. He is the product of twenty years of life. My own life. Conscious invention had little to do with him. If it is true that Captain MacWhirr never walked and breathed on this earth (which I find for my part extremely difficult to believe) I can also assure my readers that he is perfectly authentic. I may venture to assert the same of every aspect of the story, while I confess that the particular typhoon of the tale was not a typhoon of my actual experience.
At its first appearance Typhoon,
the story, was classed by some critics as a deliberately intended storm-piece. Others picked out MacWhirr, in whom they perceived a definite symbolic intention. Neither was exclusively my intention. Both the typhoon and Captain MacWhirr presented themselves to me as the necessities of the deep conviction with which I approached the subject of the story. It was their opportunity. It was also my opportunity; and it would be vain to discourse about what I made of it in a handful of pages, since the pages themselves are here, between the covers of this volume, to speak for themselves.
This is a belated reflection. If it had occurred to me before it would have perhaps done away with the existence of this Author’s Note; for, indeed, the same remark applies to every story in this volume. None of them are stories of experience in the absolute sense of the word. Experience in them is but the canvas of the attempted picture. Each of them has its more than one intention. With each the question is what the writer has done with his opportunity; and each answers the question for itself in words which, if I may say so without undue solemnity, were written with a conscientious regard for the truth of my own sensations. And each of those stories, to mean something, must justify itself in its own way to the conscience of each successive reader.
Falk
— the second story in the volume