Conrad Joseph: 705 books

The tale of a man's inability to escape his self-delusion and the tragic results that ensue, Almayer's Folly unfolds with the lush prose and keen psychological insights for which its author is renowned. Set in nineteenth-century Borneo, the novel recounts the brief rise and protracted fall of Kaspar...

Reflecting Conrad's genius for narrative that focuses on the quest for inner truths, "The Arrow of Gold" is an exploration of the dangerous appetites of men and of human vulnerability, as well as a profound meditation on the emotional boundary between people. Boasting a cast of extraordinary and eccentric...

When Willems stepped off the straight and narrow path of his own peculiar honesty he thought it would be a short episode - a sentence in brackets, so to speak - in the flowing tale of his life. But Willems was wrong, for he was about to embark on a voyage of discovery and self-discovery that would...

Joseph Conrads Meisterwerk; Englisch und Deutsch. Eine Erkundungsfahrt zu den dunkelsten Abgründen und äußersten Möglichkeiten der menschlichen Seele, in denen das absolut Böse Gestalt und Wirklichkeit gewinnt. [siehe auch Joerg K. Sommermeyer, Nachwort, S. 237 ff.]

Ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur›Lord Jim‹ ist neben der Erzählung ›Herz der Finsternis‹ das wohl bekannteste Werk Joseph Conrads. Das Meer und die Menschen, die es bereisen, sind das große Thema dieses Klassikers. Lord Jim trifft als Offizier an Bord der "Patna" eine fatale Entscheidung....

"Geschichten vom Hörensagen" vereint die wichtigsten Erzählungen Joseph Conrads.Selten erzählt Joseph Conrads direkt: Erzähltes wird weitererzählt, Perspektiven verschoben und vertieft. So entstehen die für Conrads Werk charakteristischen "Geschichten vom Hörensagen", ein...

Conrad's autobiography, which tells of his writing, his childhood, education and perspectives on literature.

Conrad's first novel. Kaspar Almayer is a Dutch trader operating out of Borneo in the late 19th century. He has a daughter with a local woman, and names her Nina. Almayer is convinced he can locate a remote gold mine and thereby become a millionaire, until tragedy strikes his little family.

Una selezione delle più celebri note d’autore e prefazioni che Conrad inserì a corollario dei propri romanzi e racconti scritti tra il 1897 e il 1920. Da Il negro del Narciso ad Appunti di vita e di letteratura, si avvicendano le stesure di Cuore di tenebra, L’agente segreto e La linea d’ombra....

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed ancestor of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused motives that lie at the heart of political terrorism. In its use of powerful psychological...

'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder - the man knows, and can look...

Conrad's final collection of short stories first published in 1915.

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.’ At the peak of European...