TYPHOON
BY
JOSEPH CONRAD
Far as the mariner on highest mast
Can see all around upon the calmed vast,
So wide was Neptune's hall . . .
-- KEATS
AUTHOR'S NOTE
THE main characteristic of this volume consists in
this, that all the stories composing it belong not only to the
same period but have been written one after another in the order
in which they appear in the book.
The period is that which follows on my connection with
Blackwood's Magazine. I had just finished writing "The End of
the Tether" and was casting about for some subject which could be
developed in a shorter form than the tales in the volume of
"Youth" when the instance of a steamship full of returning
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