...End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION End of the Teth... ... A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ... STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...light above their heads, bowed earnestly over the plates, three wire cages rocked and rattled to the rest- less jumping of the hungry canaries; and th... ...the wide grass-plots the discs of vibration made by the spokes. The bright domes of the parasols swayed lightly outwards like full-blown blossoms on t... ...solidated Docks Company, with its three graving basins carved out of solid rock, its wharves, its jetties, its electric- light plant, its steam-power ... ...tem of a pipe. His black hair lay plastered in long lanky wisps across the bald sum- mit of his head; he had a furrowed brow, a yellow complexion, and... ...ion of perfect im- mobility seemed to fall upon her from the luminous blue dome without a stain arching over a flat sea without a stir. The faint bree... ...ello towers; over the pyramidal heaps like fallen ruins, over the lines of bald bowlders show- ing like a wall of stones battered to pieces and scorch...

...Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo... ...Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tal... ...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...bours of the earth are made difficult of access by the treachery of sunken rocks and the tempests of their shores. Sulaco had found an inviolable sanc... ...are of the horizon. This is the peninsula of Azuera, a wild chaos of sharp rocks and stony levels cut about by vertical ravines. It lies far out to se... .... Bare clusters of enormous rocks sprinkle with tiny black dots the smooth dome of snow. Then, as the midday sun withdraws from the gulf the shadow of... ...t the side, and looking up the wooded slopes of the foothills at the snowy dome of Higuerota. The front of his house threw off a black long rectangle ... ...t. Charles Gould assumed that if the appearance of listening to deplorable balderdash must form part 86 Nostromo of the price he had to pay for being... ... price he had to pay for being left unmolested, the obligation of uttering balderdash personally was by no means included in the bargain. He drew the ...

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...The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Resc... ...The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Rescue by J... ... Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Rescue by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ... A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Rescue by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- tab... ...kness before the rounded form of his head. Above the masts of the brig the dome of the clear heaven was full of lights that flickered, as if some migh... ...edge of the cloud, perfectly straight from east to west, slipped along the dome of the sky like an immense hemispheric, iron shutter pivoting down smo... ...and after reaching about the same elevation, expired side by side. “Them’s rockets, sir—ain’t they?” said one of the men in a muffled voice. “Aye, roc... ...o windward and beyond a maze of broken water, sandspits, and clus- ters of rocks, the black hull of the yacht heeling over, high and motionless upon t... ...a ruffled appearance like a sick bird. Nothing was distinct of him but the bald patch on the top of his head. “Yes,” he murmured, “it is most unfortun...

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...eph Conrad A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Typhoon by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...rad A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Typhoon by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- tab... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Typhoon by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim ... .... His hair was fair and extremely fine, clasping from temple to temple the bald dome of his skull in a clamp as of fluffy silk. The hair of his face, ... ... hair was fair and extremely fine, clasping from temple to temple the bald dome of his skull in a clamp as of fluffy silk. The hair of his face, on th... ...whole thing in one great crash — her middle structure was like a half-tide rock awash upon a coast. It was like an outlying rock with the water boilin... ... the water boiling up, streaming over, pouring off, beating round — like a rock in the surf to which shipwrecked people cling before they let go—only ... ... overboard had, to his great annoyance, washed his sou’-wester hat off his bald head. The fluffy, fair hair, soaked and darkened, resembled a mean ske... ...were talking in a dark and echoing vault. Through a jagged aperture in the dome of clouds the light of a few stars fell upon the black sea, rising and...

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...The Shadow Line A Confession by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Shad... ...The Shadow Line A Confession by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Shadow Line... ...E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Shadow Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Shadow Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...ting with him and sat down on his left. Stout and pale, with a great shiny dome of a bald forehead and promi- nent brown eyes, he might have been anyt... ...him and sat down on his left. Stout and pale, with a great shiny dome of a bald forehead and promi- nent brown eyes, he might have been anything but a... ...on duty so late, away from their gambling, from their girls, or their pure domestic joys. “I say! His own launch. What have you done to him?” His star... ... indeed, it was not for want of opportunity. Captain Ellis had gone for me bald-headed in a most ridiculous fashion for being out of the way when want... ...ve a light,” he added nervously. All that time the ship lay as steady as a rock. The noise of the water pouring off the sails and spars, flowing over ...

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...The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad A P ENN S TAT E E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA TION The Sec... ...N S TAT E E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA TION The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ... E E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA TION The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...ares, exercised his vocation of a protector of society, and cultivated his domestic virtues. These last were pronounced. He was thoroughly domesticate... ...works on the staircase. He touched off in quick succession a set of fierce rockets, angry catherine wheels, loudly exploding squibs—and the matter mig... ...ekness; for his business was with an Embassy. And Mr Verloc, steady like a rock—a soft kind of rock—marched now along a street which could with every ... ...bilising his glance in that direction saw at first only black clothes, the bald top of a head, and a drooping dark grey whisker on each side of a pair... ...ty interrupted by slight convulsive starts, such as may be observed in the domestic dog having a nightmare on the hearthrug. And it was in an uneasy d... ...ace of a toothless mouth. The terrorist, as he called himself, was old and bald, with a narrow, snow-white wisp of a goatee hanging limply from his ch...

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