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Book Design by Ericka O'Rourke, Elm Design [www.elmdesign.com](www.elmdesign.com)[ ](www.elmdesign.com)[ISBN 0-594-05299-8](ISBN 0-594-05299-8)  \nTo  \nMr. and Mrs. G. F. W. Hope  \nWith Grateful Affection After Many Years Of Friendship  \nContents  \nAuthor's Note  \nIntroduction Chapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nChapter 30  \nChapter 31  \nChapter 32  \nChapter 33  \nChapter 34  \nChapter 35  \nChapter 36  \nChapter 37  \nChapter 38  \nChapter 39  \nChapter 40  \nChapter 41  \nChapter 42  \nChapter 43  \nChapter 44  \nChapter 45  \nAuthor's Note  \nWHEN this novel first appeared in book form a notion got about that I had been bolted away with. Some reviewers maintained that the work starting sa short story had got beyond the writer's control. One or two discovered internal evidence of the fact, which seemed to amuse them. They pointed out the imitations of the narrative form. They argued that no man could have been expected to talk all that time, and other men to listen so long. It was not, hey said, very credible.  \nAfter thinking it over for something like sixteen years I am not so sure about that. Men have been known, both in the tropics and in the temperate zone, to sit up half the night \"swapping yarns.\" This, However, is but one yarn, yet with interruptions affording some measure of relief; and in regard to he listeners' endurance, the postulate must be accepted that the story was interesting. It is the necessary preliminary assumption. If I hadn't believed hat it was interesting I could never have begun to write it. As to the mere physical possibility we all know that some speeches in Parliament have taken nearer six than three hours in delivery; whereas a11 that part of the book which is Marlow's narrative can be read through aloud, I should say, in less than three tours. Besides—though I have kept strictly all such insignificant details out of the tale—we may presume that here must have been refreshments on that night, a glass of mineral water of some sort to help the narrator on.  \nBut, seriously, the truth of the matter is, that my first thought was of a short story, concerned only with the pilgrim ship episode; nothing more. And that was a legitimate conception. After writing a few pages, however, I became for some reason discontented and I laid them aside for a time. I didn't take them out of the drawer till the late Mr. William Blackwood suggested I should give something again to his magazine.  \nIt was only then that I perceived that the pilgrim ship episode was a good starting-point for a free and wandering tale; that it was an event, too, which could conceivably colour the whole \"sentiment of existence\" in a simple and sensitive character. But all these preliminary moods and stirring of spirit were rather obscure at the time, and they do not appear clearer to me now after the lapse of so many years.  \nThe few pages I had laid aside were not without their weight in the choice of subject. But the whole was re-written deliberately. When I sat down to it I knew it would be a long book, though I didn't foresee that it would spread itself over thirteen numbers of \"Maga.\"  \nI have been asked at times whether this was not the book of mine I liked best. I am a great foe to favouritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works. As a matter of principle I will have no favourites; but I do","cbCaiahKC7IixMW9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiahKC7IixMW9","pdf",1879016,364,"English","# Contents\n## Author's Note\n## Introduction\n## Chapter 1\n## Chapter 2\n## Chapter 3\n## Chapter 4\n## Chapter 5\n## Chapter 6\n## Chapter 7\n## Chapter 8\n## Chapter 9\n## Chapter 10\n## Chapter 11\n## Chapter 12\n## Chapter 13\n## Chapter 14\n## Chapter 15\n## Chapter 16\n## Chapter 17\n## Chapter 18\n## Chapter 19\n## Chapter 20\n## Chapter 21\n## Chapter 22\n## Chapter 23\n## Chapter 24\n## Chapter 25\n## Chapter 26\n## Chapter 27\n## Chapter 28\n## Chapter 29\n## Chapter 30\n## Chapter 31\n## Chapter 32\n## Chapter 33\n## Chapter 34\n## Chapter 35\n## Chapter 36\n## Chapter 37\n## Chapter 38\n## Chapter 39\n## Chapter 40\n## Chapter 41\n## Chapter 42\n## Chapter 43\n## Chapter 44\n## Chapter 45","[{\"question\":\"What does Conrad say about why the novel’s story could be credible despite its length?\",\"answer\":\"He argues that people are known to “swap yarns” for long periods and that the story’s interest is the necessary premise. 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