Fiction · 1902
The End of the Tether
Captain Whalley, an aging, once-celebrated sea captain ruined by a bad investment, takes command of a rundown coastal steamer to support his daughter — concealing from his employer, his crew, and nearly himself the one fact that would end his career at sea for good.
Joseph Conrad published The End of the Tether in 1902, serialized in Blackwood's Magazine and collected that same year in Youth, a Narrative; and Two Other Stories alongside "Youth" and "Heart of Darkness" — a novella often read alongside those two as a study of a man's reckoning with his own diminishment.
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1857–1924 · Victorian
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in what is now Ukraine, to Polish parents exiled for their politics. He went to sea at sixteen, served in French and then British merchant ships for twenty years, rising to master, and began to write in English — his third language — in his late thirties. Almayer’s Folly (1895), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911) are among his works. He lived in the south of England, mostly in Kent, from 1896 until his death.
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