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The Mirror of the Sea

First published: 1906
Pages: 187

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Author's Note, Chaps 1,2,3
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Chapters 4,5,6
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Chapters 7,8,9
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Chapters 10,11,12
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Chapters 13,14,15
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Chapters 20,21
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Chapters 22,23,24
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Chapters 33-34
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Chapters 35-36
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Chapters 37-39
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Chapters 40-42
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Chapters 43-45
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Chapters 46-49
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About this book

Before he became a novelist, Joseph Conrad spent two decades as a working sailor, and in these autobiographical essays he looks back on that life with unusual tenderness. Rather than telling a single story, he gathers reflections on the craft of seamanship: the meaning of landfall and departure, the character of anchors and rigging, the personalities of the winds, and the ships that carried him. There are memories of storms survived and of the old sailing vessels already passing out of the world. It is a quiet, meditative book, closer to a prose poem than a memoir, and it reveals the sensibility behind his great sea fiction. First published in 1906, it endures as a classic of maritime writing. This free PDF and EPUB edition preserves the complete text.

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though it was his third language. His works probe moral isolation, colonialism, and the darkness within.