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End of the Tether: A Classic Maritime Novella of Duty, Age, and Sacrifice
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781604594621
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Aug 19 2008
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Joseph Conrad's End of the Tether is a powerful maritime novella about age, duty, sacrifice, and the terrible cost of holding on after fortune has failed.
Captain Whalley was once a respected seaman, a man of command, judgement, and hard-earned independence. Now old, nearly ruined, and still trying to support the daughter he loves, he takes command of the steamer Sofala in the dangerous waters of the Malay Archipelago. His dignity depends on work, his work depends on concealment, and each voyage draws him nearer to the point where endurance becomes tragedy.
First published in 1902 as part of Youth: A Narrative; and Two Other Stories, End of the Tether belongs to Conrad's great sea fiction, but its force is not only nautical. It is a story of parental love, failing strength, moral pressure, professional pride, and a man's refusal to surrender the last thing he can still give. Conrad's sea is never mere setting; it is the place where character is tested beyond comfort, reputation, and hope.
This SMK edition is suited to readers of classic maritime fiction, literary novellas, Joseph Conrad, sea stories, British modernist fiction, and fiction concerned with honour, sacrifice, age, and human endurance.
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