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The Art of the Novella (2007), Paperback, 136 pages
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LibraryThing member mmoj
How have I gotten through my many readings without having read Joseph Conrad before?
I actually picked this book because I wanted to try a new author and these seemed like a good choice. Great has a sensible young woman who is easy on the eyes. She has many men interested in her, two more so than
I loved the voice of this novel. You know how some voices in a book are so clear you can hear them in your head better than any audio book? That would be reading this book. I smiled, a frowned, a sighed all at the moments I know Conrad intended. Terrific novella.
I actually picked this book because I wanted to try a new author and these seemed like a good choice. Great has a sensible young woman who is easy on the eyes. She has many men interested in her, two more so than
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others. One Freya loves the other lusts after her.I loved the voice of this novel. You know how some voices in a book are so clear you can hear them in your head better than any audio book? That would be reading this book. I smiled, a frowned, a sighed all at the moments I know Conrad intended. Terrific novella.
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LibraryThing member janeajones
This short romance was first published in New York and London magazines in 1912. It is the tale of a star-crossed love between Freya, the daughter of an Indonesian planter and Jasper, a sea captain trading in the South Asian seas. Their plans are thwarted by Heemskirk, a Dutch officer jealous of
However that may be, she (Jasper's ship) was as sound as on the day she first took the water, sailed like a witch, steered like a little boat, and, like some fair women of adventurous life famous in history, seemed to have the secret o f perpetual youth; so that there was nothing in Jasper Allen treating her like a lover. And that treatment restored her lustrous beauty. He clothed her in many coats of the very best white paint so skillfully, carefully, artistically put on and kept clean by his badgered crew of picked Malays, that no costly enamel such as jewellers use for their work could have looked better and felt smoother to the touch. A narrow gilt moulding defined her elegant sheer as she sat on the water, eclipsing easily the professional good looks of any pleasure yacht that ever came to the East in those days....nothing less than the best gold-leaf would do, because no decoration could be gorgeous enough for the future abode of his Freya.
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Jasper's love for Freya and Freya's father, fearful of any run-ins with the colonial authorities. The observer narrator is sympathetic, but detached, in that the tale he tells happened in the not-so-distant past. The writing is, as usual with Conrad, gorgeous.However that may be, she (Jasper's ship) was as sound as on the day she first took the water, sailed like a witch, steered like a little boat, and, like some fair women of adventurous life famous in history, seemed to have the secret o f perpetual youth; so that there was nothing in Jasper Allen treating her like a lover. And that treatment restored her lustrous beauty. He clothed her in many coats of the very best white paint so skillfully, carefully, artistically put on and kept clean by his badgered crew of picked Malays, that no costly enamel such as jewellers use for their work could have looked better and felt smoother to the touch. A narrow gilt moulding defined her elegant sheer as she sat on the water, eclipsing easily the professional good looks of any pleasure yacht that ever came to the East in those days....nothing less than the best gold-leaf would do, because no decoration could be gorgeous enough for the future abode of his Freya.
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English
Original publication date
1912
Physical description
115 p.; 17 cm
ISBN
1933633131 / 9781933633138