# Tales of Unrest

Author: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1202

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Tales+of+Unrest+Conrad&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Of the five stories in this volume, “The Lagoon,” the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions. Conceived in the same mood which produced “Almayer’s Folly” and “An Outcast of the Islands,” it is told in the same breath (with what was left of it, that is, after the end of “An Outcast”), seen with the same vision, rendered in the same method--if such a thing as method did exist then in my conscious relation to this new adventure of writing for print. I doubt it very much. One does one’s work first and theorises about it...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-of-unrest-1202/chapters/16/index.md)