Joseph Conrad

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Excerpt from Joseph Conrad: Poland's English GeniusA week afterwards the Narcissus entered the chops of the Channel.Under white wings she skimmed low over the blue sea like a great tired bird speeding to its nest. The clouds raced with her mastheads, they rose astern enormous and white, soared to the zenith, flew past, and, falling down the wide curve of the sky, seemed to dash headlong into the sea - the clouds swifter than the ship, more free, but without a home. The coast to Welcome her stepped out of space into the sunshine. The lofty headlands trod masterfully into the sea, the wide bays smiled in the light, the shadows of homeless clouds ran along the sunny plains, leaped over valleys, without a check darted up the hills, rolled down the slopes, and the sunshine pursued them with patches of running brightness. On the brows of dark cliffs] white lighthouses shone in pillars of light. The Channel glittered like a blue mantle shot with gold, and starred by the silver of the capping seas. The Narcissus rushed past the headlands and the bays. Outward-bound vessels crossed her track, lying over, and with their masts stripped for a slogging fight with the hard sou'wester. And inshore, a string of smoking steamboats waddled, hugging the coast, like migrating and amphibious monsters, distrustful of the restless waves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.