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Conrad

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  In Joseph Conrad
  …renderings of dangerous life at sea and in exotic places. But his initial reputation as a masterful teller of colourful adventures of the sea masked his fascination with the individual when faced with nature’s invariable unconcern, man’s frequent malevolence, and his inner battles with good and evil. To Conrad, the…
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Melville

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  In Herman Melville
  …for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick (1851).
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