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Tales of Unrest is a assortment of short stories by Joseph Conrad originally published in 1898. Four of the five stories had been published previously in various magazines. This was the first published assortment of any of Conrad’s stories. In the five stories in this volume, "The Lagoon," the last to be able, is the initial in date. It's the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a way of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase using its special subject and its verbal suggestions. Conceived in the same mood which produced "Almayer's Folly" and "An Outcast of the Islands," it is told in the same breath (with what was left from it, that is, after the end of "An Outcast"), seen with the same vision, rendered in the same method—if any such thing as method did exist then in my conscious regards to this new adventure of writing for print. I doubt it quite definitely. One does one's work first and theorises about any of it afterwards. It really is an extremely amusing and egotistical occupation useless whatever to anybody and as likely as never to lead to false conclusions. Anyone can see that between the last paragraph of "An Outcast" and the to begin "The Lagoon" there's been no change of pen, figuratively speaking. It just happened also to be literally true. It had been the same pen: a typical steel pen. Having been charged with a certain insufficient emotional faculty I am glad to be able to say that using one occasion at least I did so cave in to a sentimental impulse. I thought the pen had been a good pen and this it had done enough for me, therefore, with the idea of keeping it for sort of memento on which I could look later with tender eyes, I put it into my waistcoat pocket. Afterwards it used to carefully turn up in all sorts of places—at the bottom of small drawers, among my studs in cardboard boxes—till at last it fou
