Typhoon and Other Tales

TYPHOON * FALK * AMY FOSTER *THE SECRET SHARERThe four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad''s experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. ''Typhoon'' is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by tempest, and of the stolid captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. In ''Falk'' a taciturn young woman is bizarrely courted by a...