Tales of Unrest, by Joseph Conrad
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“An Outpost of Progress” is the lightest part of the loot I carried off from Central Africa, the main portion being of course “The Heart of Darkness.” Other men have found a lot of quite different things there and I have the comfortable conviction that what I took would not have been of much use to anybody else. And it must be said that it was but a very small amount of plunder. All of it could go into one’s breast pocket when folded neatly. As for the story itself it is true enough in its essentials. The sustained invention of a really telling lie demands a talent which I do not possess.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings. The courage, the composure, the confidence; the emotions and principles; every great and every insignificant thought belongs not to the individual but to the crowd: to the crowd that believes blindly in the irresistible force of its institutions and of its morals, in the power of its police and of its opinion. But the contact with pure unmitigated savagery, with primitive nature and primitive man, brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart. To the sentiment of being alone of one’s kind, to the clear perception of the loneliness of one’s thoughts, of one’s sensations—to the negation of the habitual, which is safe, there is added the affirmation of the unusual, which is dangerous; a suggestion of things vague, uncontrollable, and repulsive, whose discomposing intrusion excites the imagination and tries the civilized nerves of the foolish and the wise alike.
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Tales of Unrest is a collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad originally published in 1898. Four of the five stories had been published previously in various magazines. This was the first published collection of any of Conrad’s stories.
The Stories
“Karain: A Memory”, first published in Blackwood’s magazine in 1897
“The Idiots”, first published in The Savoy in 1896
“An Outpost of Progress”, first published in Cosmopolis in 1897
“The Return”, never previously published
“The Lagoon”, first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897
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The Titanic was carrying nearly 7 million pieces of mail from England to the United States. One of those mail items was a manuscript for “Karain: A Memory” by noted Victorian author Joseph Conrad. The manuscript, complete with Conrad’s handwritten notes, was intended for New York corporate lawyer John Quinn, who was also a collector of original literary manuscripts.