"My task which I am trying to achieve is by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything."
–Joseph Conrad, a Polish-born British novelist, died #OTD 1924. Conrad's parents were ardent Polish nationalists, and his childhood was darkened by the exile into which they were sent by the tsarist authorities. His mother died in 1865 and his father four years later, leaving the orphaned boy to be cared for by an uncle. Partly inspired by love of the sea, partly to avoid conscription in the Russian army, Conrad joined the French merchant navy (1874). After an unhappy period based in Marseilles, where he attempted suicide, he joined a British ship (1878) and took his profession seriously, achieving his master's certificate in 1886. In 1890 he went on a brief and unsuccessful expedition to the Congo and in 1894 he left the sea. Having become a British subject in 1886, he married an English girl (1896), and settled down to write.
昨天發現這本書有近20種的有聲免費書.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/974/974-0.txt
Title: The Secret Agent
A Simple Tale
Author: Joseph Conrad
Release Date: December 24, 2010 [eBook #974]
First released: June 28, 1997
Language: English
Character set encoding: UTF-8
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SECRET AGENT***
Transcribed from the 1907 Methuen & Co edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org
THE
SECRET AGENT
A SIMPLE TALE
BY
JOSEPH CONRAD
SECOND EDITION
METHUEN & CO.,
36 ESSEX STREET W C.
LONDON
_First Published_ . . . _September_ 1907
_Second Edition_ . . . _October_ 1907
TO
H. G. WELLS
THE CHRONICLER OF MR LEWISHAM’S LOVE
THE BIOGRAPHER OF KIPPS AND THE
HISTORIAN OF THE AGES TO COME
THIS SIMPLE TALE OF THE XIX CENTURY
IS AFFECTIONATELY OFFERED
今天我注意到它是獻給H. G. Wells的.
Wells小說多屬於佳作
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipps
Title: Kipps
The Story of a Simple Soul
Author: H. G. Wells
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39162/pg39162.txt
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