The Rescue

A Romance of the Shallows

by

Joseph Conrad

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2010

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Table of Contents

Author’s Note

Part I. The Man and the Brig

Part II. The Shore of Refuge

Part III. The Capture

Part IV. The Gift of the Shallows

Part V. The Point of Honour and the Point of Passion

Part VI. The Claim of Life and the Toll of Death

‘Allas!’ quod she, ‘that ever this sholde happe!

For wende I never, by possibilitee,

That swich a monstre or merveille mighte be!’

— THE FRANKELEYN’S TALE

TO
FREDERIC COURTLAND PENFIELD
LAST AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA TO THE LATE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE, THIS
OLD TIME TALE IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED
IN MEMORY OF THE RESCUE OF CERTAIN
DISTRESSED TRAVELLERS EFFECTED BY HIM
IN THE WORLD’S GREAT STORM OF THE YEAR 1914

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