Amy Foster (Audio Book)

In this story, "Yanko Goorall", a Polish immigrant en route for America is shipwrecked on the shores of Kent, England. Speaking no English, he is treated as a madman and is whipped, stoned, beaten and imprisoned by the locals. Eventually he is given a job by a Mr. Swaffer, learns to speak English, and falls in love with Amy Foster, an English girl who had shown him kindness.

This classic shortish story relates author’s self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk. The one exception is the loving, if dull-witted, Miss Foster.

The book is believed to reflect Conrad's own social alienation in English society.

In 1997, "Amy Foster" was made into the film, Swept from the Sea.