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The range of Joseph Conrad's material, as of his splendid glooms and lucidities in storytelling, could scarcely be better shown than in this collection of eleven long and short tales. They include, besides the familiar sea stories, tales of Poland, England and Asia. Among them are the classic...
"Then darkness closed in. It was three o'clock in the afternoon and above the swirling storm the sun was shining. Yet the plane wing, which seconds before I had watched flap like a bird's wing, no longer was visible. The shriek of the wind drowned out...
"We were led down a hazardous set of 20 slippery stairs without hand rails. The sight in the hold was like a charcoal drawing of Inferno. The brilliant sun filtered through grillwork, throwing sharp lines of light and darkness across the refugees' faces and their hot, sweaty, half-naked...
In 1917 Zaslavsky's scream against Lenin only brought Lenin's censors in greater, more ferocious force, to hound him from cellar to cellar. He changed the name of his newspaper from Den (Day) to Noch (Night) and then to Pol Noch (Half-night). But before long, darkness...
It was an ordinary evening at the Arab-owned, Jewish-operated Café Hawaii on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Jewish couples crowded the dance floor. Alongside, the River Yarkon flowed quietly between its eucalyptus-lined banks. "Jeep," a comedian, stepped to the microphone, opened his mouth to sing, and...