In these four stories Joseph Conrad explores alienation, danger and exploitation in strange worlds, at sea and on land. Typhoon' portrays a captain and his first mate as they face a deadly storm, while 'Falk", the companion sea-story, is a tale of love and the struggle for sur vival amid hideous moral disintegration. With his two stories set on land, Conrad explores the isolation of an Eastern European immigrant in a Kent village in 'Amy Foster', and expresses the plight of a woman exploited by two retired widowers in To-morrow. All these works, written between 1900 and 1902, show individuals hemmed in by circumstances beyond their control in rigid, enclosed societies.

Part of a major series of new editions of Conrad's most famous works in Penguin Classics, this volume contains a chronology, further reading, notes, glossaries and an introduction discussing the background, themes and technique of each story and highlighting the contrasts and continuities between them.