Within the Tides

The four stories contained in Within the Tides are linked by Conrad's treatment of loyalty and betrayal. They range in setting from the Far East to eighteenth-century Spain to England. The tone shifts from the tragic inevitability of ';The Planter of Malata' and the pathos of ';Because of the Dollars' to the gothic atmosphere of ';The Inn of the Two Witches' and the grim humor of ';The Partner.' Experimental in form, these stories represent yet another branch of Conrad's search for moral truth.