Eddie- I am not qualified to be a book critic. A proofreader and spell checker, yes-- but to try to give you even a precis of what Mr. Conrad was putting forth is far beyond my abilities, even allowing for the fact that I am a voracious reader with a fairly sharp memory, for a 80 year old senior citizen, that is. I have outlived my favorite fiction writer, the late Ernest Miller Hemingway, by almost 20 years, so a few more years would be just an extra splash of George Dickel in my glass. RWTF
Done and Done, many years ago, Eddie. When I told you I am a voracious reader- that means far more than Hemingway-- I read this novella in HS, and wrote a paper on it, which gave me an A in my senior year English Lit. Class-- FYI- just in the scope of American authors (living and departed) I am also fairly well read with: Robert Ruark, John A. Cheever, John Steinbeck, Edward Albee, J.D. Salinger, Faulkner, Harrison, Buckingham, Babcock, Rutledge-- and the list goes on, to include Beryl Markham-- fwiw- she looks different in the foto of her in her airplane as found in recent edition of Sporting Classics magazine, as opposed to her cover foto on her book. Ernest Hemingway's comments about her skill as a writer, as found on the back of her book, are most enlightening. RWTF
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