By Joseph Conrad
The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad's later years, the autobiographical brief novel The Shadow-Line depicts a tender guy at a crossroads in his existence, dealing with a determined quandary that marks the "shadow-line" among early life and maturity.
This short yet severe tale is a dramatically fictionalized account of Conrad's first command as a tender sea captain trapped aboard a becalmed, fever-wracked, and doubtless haunted send. without wind in sight and his group disabled by means of malaria, the narrator discovers that the medication essential to shop the ill males is lacking and its absence has been intentionally hid. in the meantime, his more and more fearful first mate is confident that the malignant ghost of the former captain has cursed them. Suspenseful, atmospheric, and deceptively basic, Conrad's story of the ocean displays the complicated subject matters of his most famed novels, Lord Jim and center of Darkness.
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That was the First World, which was like an island floating in a sea of mist.
When we read American history backward, looking for early precedents of national institutions, practices, and values, we are likely to miss the radical linguistic and cultural diversity of the colonial world. Readers of the colonial record need to attend to the many tongues with which the colonists articulated their experiences, visions, and values. -rJ; AMERICAN LITERATURE IN 1700 Along the eastern seaboard by 1700, most of the colonies that were to unite in seeking independence from Britain toward the end of the eighteenth century had been founded-Georgia was to follow in the 1730s.
Lloyd, somewhat later, both worked with the Pima man Thin Leather to record stories of the earliest times. Among the Iroquois, David Cusick, a Tuscarora (the Tuscarora joined the Iroquois Confederacy early in the eighteenth century), had begun to document the legends of his people as early as 1825. He was followed by the distinguished Tuscarora anthropologist J. N. B. Hewitt shortly after the turn of the last century. THE IROQUOIS CREATION STORY -r he people known collectively as the Iroquois were mnde up of the Mohawk, Sen1 eca, Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga nations.