

Within the Tides
Author: Joseph Conrad
Narrator: Geoffrey Howard
Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 05/01/2009
Author: Joseph Conrad
Narrator: Geoffrey Howard
Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 05/01/2009
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Joseph Conrad could be a good writer of short stories, and his best short stories have a unity and clarity that is often lacking in his longer works. Sadly, Within the Tides is not the best place to look for Conrad’s story-telling skills, and none of the four tales here can be counted among his bett......more
This is a fun collection of short stories. All four are centered around the sea, though none of them ever really make it out to sea. They touch on supernatural (The Inn of the Two Witches is flat out creepy) without being ghost stories per se. Three of the four stories are from the perspective of a......more
5 out of 10. Sometimes reading Conrad I find myself wondering what the hell he's talking about...though written in beautiful English...usually the difficulty regards what a character is supposed to be feeling.......more
I got this to listen to during a commute and was disappointed. It seemed very slow and hard to follow - but I'll take the blame. It was probably the wrong material to compete with rush hour traffic and deserved quiet attention. Short Stories - Recorded - 4 psychological studies - "The Planter of Mala......more
I have these Conrad short stories in Penguin 506, second edition 1945, and it has more than signs of wear and tear. The sewn pages are in good nick, though, and it was a pleasure to hold and read. These things matter, especially if you struggle with Conrad and haven’t read him for a while. I found the......more