Maia (novel) natural objects, and sexual terms; the last "allows adults to leave the book within reach of children." Some are also used in "Shardik". "The New Yorker" quipped that though Maia's career as a Playboy Bunny was reminiscent of "Watership Down", she seemed more like a fish, and her swimming "changes... much more than her career". It said "Mr. Adams's artistry distinguishes his work from those didactic fantasies which border on science fiction"; instead the aim was entertainment, as shown in the elaborate settings, and the reader has no reason to put the book down. Maia (novel) Maia is a fantasy
The Rescue (Conrad novel) he falls in love with a married woman whose yacht he saves from foundering. In the 1925 Gresham Publishing Company edition there is an Author's Note that was written in 1920, in which Conrad gives background as to the writing of "The Rescue". After he began writing, he set the novel down in 1898 and picked it back up in 1918. Conrad emphasises that he did not set the novel down in despair, but rather he had doubts as to how to handle the subject matter presented in "The Rescue" through his prose. When Conrad set this novel aside, it