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A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children a farmers wife is determined to bear no more A spoonful of sugar brings a neophyte ivory trader to a moment of Nietzschean selfrealisation A pompous ass discovers that his wife has run off with another man Secluded in an eerie lagoon a Malay carries a guilty secret in his heart Tales of Unrest was the first volume of short fiction Joseph Conrad published in his own lifetime While some of these tales evoke the settings of Conrads earliest novels others clearly anticipate elements of Conrads subsequent masterworks Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent