A Shipwreck [antikvár]

JOSEPH CONRAD Joseph Conrad, the son of a Polish revolutionary, was born in Russia, near Kiev. At the age of 17 he shipped as a sailor on board a British vessel. In 1880, he passed his examinations, got a master's ticket and then served as first or second mate on merchant ships. Conrad began his literary work only in 1889 when he was thirty-two years old. John Galsworthy, the famous English writer, who happened to be a passenger on board his ship, read somé of his manuscripts and advised him to go on writing. Soon Conrad became one of the best writers of sea stories and tales of adventure. YOUTH (an extract) We were sitting round a table. There were three old seamen, Marlow and myself. We all began life in the merchant service and between the five of us there was the strong bond of the sea.1 Then Marlow began teliing the story of a voyage. "Yes, what I remember best is my first voyage to the East, and my first voyage as second mate. My skipper wTas sixty but he had blue eyes like a boy's. What induced him to accept me was a wonder.2 I had come out of a first-class Australian clipper, where I had been third officer and he seemed to be against first-class clippers, considering them too aristocratic. He said to me, 1... between the five of us there was the strong bond of the sea - . . . Bcex Hac KpenKO CBH3biBajia jiioőoBb K Mopio 2What induced him to accept me was a wonder. - y a h b h t e jis>h o, iito aacTaBHJio ero B3HTb MeHfl (na őopT cydna).