Within the Tides, Joseph Conrad
Within the Tides, Joseph Conrad
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Within the Tides

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Geoffrey Howard

Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2009

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, amongst others, on the idea of Fidelity."Joseph ConradWritten at various times and under various influences, the four stories contained in Within the Tides are linked by Conrad's treatment of loyalty and betrayal. They range in setting from the Far East via eighteenthcentury Spain to England. The tone shifts from the tragic inevitability of "The Planter of Malata" and the pathos of "Because of the Dollars" to the gothic "The Inn of the Two Witches" and the grim humor of "The Partner." Experimental in form, they represent yet another branch of Conrad's search for moral truth.

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Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew on November 06, 2016

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

Goodreads review by Marcus on January 20, 2010

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

Goodreads review by Tom on November 28, 2021

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

Goodreads review by Ed on December 13, 2014

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

Goodreads review by Anthony on June 05, 2020

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