Amy Foster is a short story about a Polish immigrant who falls for an English woman while been shipwrecked on the shores of Kent, England en route to America. Yanko Goorall eventually marries this English woman named Amy Foster and they have a child together. Yanko however falls ill and soon dies of heart failure whilst Amy flees fearing for her life because of Yanko's speech in his foreign tongue.
Platform Windows 95/98/ME
Operating Systems Windows 95/98/ME,Windows NT/2000,Windows XP
Date added 14 Aug 2006
Last Updated 24 Jan 2011
Tags Joseph Conrad, Amy Foster, Polish Immigrant, Yanko Goorall, Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish novelist