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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: True Sign Publishing House
Published: Feb 2023
Genre: Fiction - Romance - General
Pages: 72
Falk (1903) is composed of many elements Conrad used in his other novels and novellas. The story begins with a group of mariners dining in a small river-hostelry in the Thames estuary discussing seafaring matters - a situation he had already used in Heart of Darkness, which was written the year before. He even uses a similar comparison of the narrative present with a distant past - not that of the Roman invasion, but of primeval man telling tales of his experience.