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Amy Foster

Amy Foster is a short story written by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1901. The story is set in rural England and follows the life of a young girl named Amy Foster, who is ostracized by her community due to her foreign background. Despite her isolation, Amy falls in love with... Read Full Overview

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Amy Foster is a short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1901, first published in the Illustrated London News (December 1901). Description from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A poor emigrant from Central Europe sailing from Hamburg to America is shipwrecked off the coast of England. The residents of nearby villages, at first unaware of the sinking, and hence of the possibility of survivors, regard him as a dangerous tramp and madman. He speaks no... Read Full Overview

Amy Foster is a short story written by Joseph Conrad, a Polish-British author, and published in 1901. The story is set in rural England and follows the life of a young woman named Amy Foster who is shunned by her community due to her foreign background. Amy is a Ukrainian immigrant... Read Full Overview

Amy Foster" is a short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1901, first published in the Illustrated London News (December 1901). A poor emigrant from Central Europe sailing from Hamburg to America is shipwrecked off the coast of England. The residents of nearby villages, at first... Read Full Overview

A poor emigrant from Central Europe sailing from Hamburg to America is shipwrecked off the coast of England. The residents of nearby villages, at first unaware of the sinking, and hence of the possibility of survivors, regard him as a dangerous tramp and madman. He speaks no... Read Full Overview

Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk. The one exception is the loving, if dull-witted, Miss Foster.Includes... Read Full Overview

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"A completeness without a clue, and a stealthy silence as of a neatly executed crime, characterise this murderous disaster, which, as you may remember, had its gruesome celebrity. The wind would have prevented the loudest outcries from reaching the shore; there had been evidently... Read Full Overview

"Amy Foster" from Joseph Conrad. Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England (1857-1924).

Amy Foster Paperback by Joseph Conrad Amy Foster" is a short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1901, first published in the Illustrated London News (December 1901). A poor emigrant from Central Europe sailing from Hamburg to America is shipwrecked off the coast of England. The... Read Full Overview

The relations of shipwrecks in the olden time tell us of much suffering. Often the castaways were only saved from drowning to die miserably from starvation on a barren coast; others suffered violent death or else slavery, passing through years of precarious existence with people... Read Full Overview

Amy Foster

Amy Foster"" is a short story by Joseph Conrad. Conrad's story, told in a realist style, is deeply infused with irony and symbolism. The bay looms behind the quiet life of the village in the first lines of the story, representing the presence of the rest of the world that the... Read Full Overview

Kennedy is a country doctor, and lives in Colebrook, on the shores of Eastbay. The high ground rising abruptly behind the red roofs of the little town crowds the quaint High Street against the wall which defends it from the sea. Beyond the sea-wall there curves for miles in a... Read Full Overview

Classic short story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk. The one exception is the loving, if dull-witted, Miss Foster.