TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conrad,Joseph
TI  - Typhoon
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Sea stories
KW  - Ship captains -- Fiction
KW  - Adventure stories
KW  - Typhoons -- Fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_(novella); Release date is 2006-01-09; Produced by Judy Boss and David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Typhoon" by Joseph Conrad is a novella written in 1899 and serialized in 1902. Captain MacWhirr commands the steamer Nan-Shan straight into a devastating Pacific typhoon, refusing to change course despite the mounting danger. Though emotionally distant from his crew and family, and lacking imagination, his unyielding determination against overwhelming natural forces commands unexpected respect. Conrad innovatively portrays the shift from sail to steam while employing a startling narrative technique—leaping forward in time at the story's climax, challenging readers to imagine how the ship survived the storm's fury. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1142
ER  -