...The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of t... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... tling forward at the cry of “All hands on deck!” He is the satrap of that province in the autocratic realm of the ship, and more personally responsib... ...s own watch, whom he knows better than the others. There he sees the cable ranged, the windlass disconnected, the com- 16 The Mirror of the Sea press... ...gination of a brother- sailor, of a fellow-servant and lover of ships, may range unchecked. And yet sometimes one gets a hint of what the last scene m... ...elty meted out to helpless ships. Shut up in the desolate circuit of these basins, you would think a free ship would droop and die like a wild bird pu... ...f the Victoria and Albert Docks, right down to the vast gloom of the great basins in Tilbury, each of those places of restraint for ships has its own ...

...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The ...

...Contents: I. Landfalls and Departures IV. Emblems of Hope VII. The Fine Art X. Cobwebs and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and Missing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West...

... PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...uld have had the power to bring death and devastation upon two flourishing provinces and cause serious anxiety to the leaders of the revolution in the... ...e old Royalist being wrapped up in his laughing madness, the two women ar- ranged a hiding-place for the wounded man in one of the huts amongst the fr... ...pair he let out. Señores, I know many men in my country, especially in the provinces most subject to earthquakes, who will neither eat, sleep, pray, n... ... costly shawl, she was lying on a rustic seat by the side of an ornamental basin whose foun- tain had ceased to play for ever on that night. “I had ha... ...tion of some prisoners of your nationality. In the territory upon which he ranged, from sea coast to the Cordillera, there was a bay where the ships o... ...d about eleven in the morning, and found the ship ready to drop out of the basin, stern first. She had not moved three times her own length when, at a...

Excerpt: A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad.