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JOSEPH CONRAD

A Novelist Who Understands as Poets Do

Reader, This Enchiridion I present thee with is the Fruit of Solitude: A School few care to learn in, tho' None instructs us better. Some Parts of it are the Result of serious Reflection: Others the Flashings of Lucid Intervals: Writ for private Satisfaction, and now publish'd for an Help to Human Conduct.

-WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruus of Solitude