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Ever since I came upon The Nigger of the Narcissus in tranquil ante-bellum days I had been under the spell of Conrad's art. Typhoon, Lord Jim and Chance were read with increasing beguilement, and then N ostromo, that most astonishing creation of the imagination. One felt that here, indeed, was a magician who could conjure up the very spirit of some Eastern river and make One smell the rank sti?ing jungle or feel the motion of the ship as it drives before the hurricane. Nothing quite like these stories was to be found in the entire range of English literar ture. One was prepared to agree with Gals'worthy that such writing is probably the only writing of the last twelve years [he was referring to 1896- 1908] that will enrich the English language to any.
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