Contextualizing and comprehending Joseph Conrad's "The Return."

Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1996 by the Kid Billy

(9) For a reading of "The Tale," another neglected but excellent story by Conrad, see Bonney, Thorns and Arabesques (208-15) and Hawthorn (260-08).

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