Youth
Classic Tales Edition

Youth… The story is based on Joseph Conrad’s personal experience… The tale is written in the very colourful and vivid language and in its tone it is heavy with irony. You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence. Y......more

'Pass the bottle', please! 🍷 One of Joseph Conrad's early short stories, 'Youth' (1902) tells the tale of Marlow's account of his youthful adventures on board of the Judea, as registered by the narrator of the story, who makes up -- together with Marlow and three other experienced seamen -- the small......more

"O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me she was not an old rattletrap carting about the world a lot of coal for a freight - to me she was the endeavour, the test, the trial of life. I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret - as you would think......more

Judea faces a storm. It is a "Do or Die" situation for the crew. JOSEPH Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the French merchant marine in 1874 and the British one in 1878. His merchant-marine career lasted 19 years,......more