TALES OF UNREST     

  

       By Joseph Conrad     

   

       “Be it thy course to being giddy minds With foreign quarrels.” —SHAKESPEARE     

   TO ADOLF P. KRIEGER FOR THE SAKE OF OLD DAYS   

   

       Contents     

  AUTHOR’S NOTE  

  KARAIN, A MEMORY  

  THE IDIOTS  

  AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS  

  THE RETURN  

  THE LAGOON  

   

      

       AUTHOR’S NOTE     

       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 

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