title: Typhoon and Other Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  Joseph Conrad 
description: Cedric Watts is an authority on Conrad and the author of numerous books and articles on Conrad including Joseph Conrad: A Literary Life (1989), A Preface to Conrad (2nd edn 1993), and Joseph Conrad (1994). For OWC he has edited Heart of Darkness and Other Tales and other Conrad books for<br />other publishers, most recently Lord Jim for Broadview Press.
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  Typhoon
  
  
    
    
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  # Typhoon
  
  
  ### Joseph Conrad
  
  
  
  
  
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  * VI
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Far as the mariner on highest mast
  
  
  Can see all around upon the calmed vast,
  
  
  So wide was Neptune's hall . . .
  
  
  \-- KEATS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE main characteristic of this volume consists in this, that all
  
  
  the stories composing it belong not only to the same period but have
  
  
  been written one after another in the order in which they appear in
  
  
  the book.
  
  
  
  
  
  The period is that which follows on my connection with Blackwood's
  
  
  Magazine. I had just finished writing "The End of the Tether" and was
  
  
  casting about for some subject which could be developed in a shorter
  
  
  form than the