Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad - is a collection 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 collection of any of Conrad's stories.The Stories: "Karain: A Memory", first published in Blackwood's magazine in 1897"The Idiots", first published in The Savoy in 1896"An Outpost of Progress", first published in Cosmopolis in 1897"The Return", never previously published"The Lagoon", first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897Of the five stories in this volume, "The Lagoon, " the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with 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 of it, that is, after the end of "An Outcast"), seen with the same vision, rendered in the same method-if such a thing as method did exist then in my conscious relation to this new adventure of writing for print. I doubt it very much. One does one's work first and theorises about it afterwards. It is a very amusing and egotistical occupation of no use whatever to any one and just as likely as not to lead to false conclusions.