Peyrol (a master-gunner in the French republican navy, pirate, and for nearly fifty years 'rover of the outer seas') attempts to find refuge in an isolated farmhouse (Escampobar) on the Giens Peninsula near Hyères. The story takes place in the south of France, against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise to power, and the French-English rivalry in the Mediterranean. He fires a warning shot into the interior, then joins the stricken yacht. When they reach the island Lingard handles his brig skilfully, but it transpires that he was heading for the island himself. Suddenly they are approached by a search party in a boat seeking help for a yacht which has become stranded on mudflats on a nearby island.Carter, the commander of the boat is interrogated in rather a hostile and suspicious manner which leaves him puzzled, but his boat is put in tow.

With his chief mate Shaw he discusses the problems that women can cause. Young Tom Lingard is the owner and captain of a sailing ship, the Lightning which lies becalmed at night, somewhere in the Malayan archipelago. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works.

He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world.Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism.His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example,have influenced numerous authors. Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and short story writer.

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