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“If Mr Joseph Conrad’s ‘The rescue’ is an earlier novel, as has been
said, it is difficult to see why he did not leave its style intact or
re-write it wholly in his later, sparer manner. Yet with all the
disappointments of detail, in completion ‘The rescue’ produces a
massiveness of effect which belongs only to Conrad.” C. M. R.

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“Mr Conrad remains a writer who approaches greatness. In ‘The rescue’
there are prose harmonies as rich and plangent as in ‘Youth’ itself.
There are glimpses of men—Shaw, Travers, Jörgenson—that are sharp as
etchings. His senses are marvellously active and acute and his ability
to render their perceptions into language is superb. He fails,
contrary to a common opinion, when he seeks to explain the operations
of the mind or the character of the passions or when he reflects.”

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“The book is absorbingly interesting; dramatic, subtle, fascinating
with that allurement, that sheer power and sweep of romance which is
Joseph Conrad’s to command.” L. M. Field

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“Begun some twenty years ago, finished last year, it combines the
lucidity of his earlier work with the subtlety of his later manner.”

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“We who have had a sense of groping for the old magic amongst the
later tales of Joseph Conrad may find it in this book.” H. W. Boynton

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“His command of what was originally an alien tongue, probably
unequalled in the whole course of English letters, has gained in
mastery and subtlety, and the gifts that he brings us are still rich
and strange and new.”

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“It matters not how often Mr Conrad tells the story of the man and the
brig. Out of the million stories that life offers the novelist, this
one is founded upon truth. And it is only Mr Conrad who is able to
tell it us. But if the statement of the theme is extremely fine, we
have to admit that the working out of the theme is puzzling: we cannot
deny that we are left with a feeling of disappointment.”

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The book is a contribution to the literature on psychical matters in
which the soul is treated as a psychical subject whose physiological
state is but transitory, merely an “occasion” for conduct. Part 1,
Myself, includes such subjects as the relativity of knowledge,
insight, self-consciousness, the intelligible universe and the
sensible universe, ideas, free-will and the categorical imperative.