'Twixt Land And Sea
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the restless waters of the Malay Archipelago to the fog-laden ports of the Eastern trade routes, Joseph Conrad's 'Twixt Land and Sea presents three masterful tales — A Smile of Fortune, The Secret Sharer, and Freya of the Seven Isles — each chronicling the lives of seafarers caught between the civilised world and the untamed forces of the ocean. With the precision of a man who lived the life he wrote about, Conrad details the moral ambiguities, psychological tensions, and fateful decisions that define men at the margins of empire and sea. These are stories of desire, honour, and catastrophic consequence, rendered with an intensity that makes the boundary between duty and transgression feel razor-thin. Conrad's prose operates on multiple registers simultaneously — the vividly sensory and the philosophically profound — marking him as one of the foremost architects of literary modernism. His signature technique of psychological interiority, deeply atmospheric settings, and unreliable narrators gives each tale an unsettling, hypnotic power that lingers long after the final page. First published in 1912, this collection stands as a testament to Conrad's enduring obsession with isolation, identity, and the sea as both a literal and existential frontier — leaving the reader to wonder where, exactly, land ends and the self begins.
Author: Joseph Conrad
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the restless waters of the Malay Archipelago to the fog-laden ports of the Eastern trade routes, Joseph Conrad's 'Twixt Land and Sea presents three masterful tales — A Smile of Fortune, The Secret Sharer, and Freya of the Seven Isles — each chronicling the lives of seafarers caught between the civilised world and the untamed forces of the ocean. With the precision of a man who lived the life he wrote about, Conrad details the moral ambiguities, psychological tensions, and fateful decisions that define men at the margins of empire and sea. These are stories of desire, honour, and catastrophic consequence, rendered with an intensity that makes the boundary between duty and transgression feel razor-thin. Conrad's prose operates on multiple registers simultaneously — the vividly sensory and the philosophically profound — marking him as one of the foremost architects of literary modernism. His signature technique of psychological interiority, deeply atmospheric settings, and unreliable narrators gives each tale an unsettling, hypnotic power that lingers long after the final page. First published in 1912, this collection stands as a testament to Conrad's enduring obsession with isolation, identity, and the sea as both a literal and existential frontier — leaving the reader to wonder where, exactly, land ends and the self begins.