Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad - 書籍 -  - 9798668970445 - 2020年10月14日
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Lord Jim

Book Excerpt: ...elt sure--he alone would know how to deal with the spurious menace of wind and seas. He knew what to think of it. Seen dispassionately, it seemed contemptible. He could detect no trace of emotion in himself, and the final effect of a staggering event was that, unnoticed and apart from the noisy crowd of boys, he exulted with fresh certitude in his avidity for adventure, and in a sense of many-sided courage. CHAPTER 2After two years of training he went to sea, and entering the regions so well known to his imagination, found them strangely barren of adventure. He made many voyages. He knew the magic monotony of existence between sky and water: he had to bear the criticism of men, the exactions of the sea, and the prosaic severity of the daily task that gives bread--but whose only reward is in the perfect love of the work. This reward eluded him. Yet he could not go back, because there is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving...

メディア 書籍     Paperback Book   (ソフトカバーで背表紙を接着した本)
リリース済み 2020年10月14日
ISBN13 9798668970445
ページ数 278
寸法 152 × 229 × 16 mm   ·   412 g
言語 英語  

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