Front matter
Reading edition
’TWIXT LAND & SEA TALES
BY JOSEPH CONRAD
A SMILE OF FORTUNE
THE SECRET SHARER
FREYA OF THE SEVEN ISLES
Life is a tragic folly Let us laugh and be jolly Away with melancholy Bring me a branch of holly Life is a tragic folly
A. Symons.
LONDON: J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. ALDINE HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN · 1920
First Edition October 1912
Reprinted November 1912; January 1913; November 1918; December 1920
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To CAPTAIN C. M. MARRIS LATE MASTER AND OWNER OF THE ARABY MAID: ARCHIPELAGO TRADER IN MEMORY OF THOSE OLD DAYS OF ADVENTURE