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Il compagno segreto

By Joseph Conrad, Pietro De Logu (Translator), Francesco Giacobelli (Editor), Andrea Zanzotto (Preface)

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| Paperback | 9788817120357

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Testo inglese a fronte

Un inquietante segreto venuto dal mare smuove la bonaccia che intorpidisce l'equipaggio. E dà avvio a una serie di astuzie con cui il giovane capitano, al suo primo comando, si impegnerà a dissimulare la presenza sulla nave del fuggiasco Leggatt, proiezione delle sue ansie e Continue

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A long and arduous enterprise

In this breathless pause at the threshold of a long passage we seemed to be measuring our fitness for a long and arduous enterprise, the appointed task of both our existences to be carried out, far from all human eyes, with only sky and sea for spectators and for judges.

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"The youngest man on board (barring the second mate), and untried as yet by a position of the fullest responsibility, I was willing to take the adequacy of the others for granted. They had simply to be equal to their tasks; but I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception o ... (continue)

"The youngest man on board (barring the second mate), and untried as yet by a position of the fullest responsibility, I was willing to take the adequacy of the others for granted. They had simply to be equal to their tasks; but I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one’s own personality every man sets up for himself secretly".

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Guy Montag said on Apr 10, 2009 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

"It was, in the night, as though I had been faced by my own reflection in the dephts of a sombre and immense mirror"

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