Conrad Joseph: 705 books

Set in London during the 1880s, Mr Verloc the shopkeeper leads a life of simplicity and obscurity - the perfect ingredients for his secret job as a spy.

Un vieux capitaine se raconte. Disparues les occasions qu’il aurait su comment saisir : et disparu aussi le troupeau aux ailes blanches de ces voiliers qui vivaient de la vie incertaine et turbulente des vents, et tiraient de grosses fortunes de l’écume de la mer. Dans un monde qui rognait...

Cuando se aviva el brillo de la mirada es que hemos pronunciado la palabra aventura y con ella nos llega la posibilidad de cambio y novedad. Otras veces la aventura asoma sin permiso y nos desafía movilizando la capacidad heroica que hay en nosotros. La aventura, antes que épica, es justo una idea...

'To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be pronounced.' Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman - 'as unflinching as a hero in a book' - who is...

Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover, his wife was...

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The young ship captain is faced with a conundrum - a strange castaway named Leggatt has come aboard his new ship. He soons find out the newcomer has an unsavoury past that must be kept from his crew at all costs, but in doing so, he risks all their lives. 

Flora de Barral is the abandoned daughter of a bankrupt business, who must now live in a world without privilege and money.

This is the story of James Wait, a black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus, who takes ill with life-threatening tuberculosis. His plight arouses the sympathy of some, and the ire of others.

Set in Marseille during the Third Carlist War, The Arrow of Gold tells of a love triangle between three supporters of the Spanish Pretender.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak— the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning.

The story opens with an unnamed narrator on board a sailing yacht anchored in the Thames Estuary downstream from London and near Gravesend. He is with four friends, and dusk is falling as they wait for some hours for the turning of the tide. The narrator briefly describes the others, all of whom...

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide. The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before...