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The End of the Tether: and Other Tales: and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad & Philip Davis is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is The End of the Tether: and Other Tales: and Other Tales about?
'(Conrad) thought of civilised and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might break and let the unwary sink into fiery depths' - Bertrand Russell This selection of four tales by Conrad is about radical insecurity: lone human beings involuntarily forced into confrontation with a terrifying universe in which they can never be wholly at home. It leads with 'The End of the Tether' and includes also ' The Duel', ' The Return', and
Who reads The End of the Tether: and Other Tales: and Other Tales?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Joseph Conrad & Philip Davis
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192650634
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Criticism, Classics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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