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  The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

  
  Loosely based on the author’s firsthand experience of rescuing a company agent from a remote station in the heart of the Congo, the novel is considered a literary bridge between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With its modern literary approach to questions such as the ambiguous nature of good and evil, the novel foreshadows many of the themes and techniques that define modern literature.

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