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Mike Filey’s column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973.

Mike Filey brings the stories of Toronto, its people and places, to life.

In Victory (1915) Conrad returns to the Malay Archipelago, to the setting of his first mature novel, Lord Jim, and in Axel Heyst he creates a hero who is in many ways similar to Jim, a noble altrui

The tale of a mortally ill man on a homeward bound ship and the effect he has on his ship mates.

Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!

This edition of Conrad's classic 1912 short story reprints the authoritative text of the 1924 Doubleday Edition together with five critical essays - all newly commissioned - that read "Th

The Nan-Shan was on her way from the southward to the treaty port of Fuchau with cargo 200 Chinese coolies on board.