The Sea, The Earth, and All Men: Complete Stories and Novellas Vol 3: 1908-1917

“I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more — the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort — to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires — and expires, too soon — too soon before life itself.” — Youth (1902). Joseph Conrad’s twenty-nine stories and novellas were originally gathered in seven collections. The three volumes of 'The Sea, The Earth, and All Men' contain the entirety of this shorter fiction — some half a million words — with Conrad’s prefatory notes to the collections. Volume 3 features such classic stories as 'The Secret Sharer' and 'Prince Roman'.