Joseph Conrad: 705 books

This is an account of a strange relationship between a writer and a woman. The writer has yet to accomplish anything and the woman's mindset is almost incomprehensible - together they monopolize the reader's attention. A captivating tale that stands out for its unique style!

The work amalgamates two poignant and deep stories of love and affection. The helplessness of a father as old age is tarnishing his hopes is presented in a heart rending manner. The other tale depicts the growing love between a couple and the ups and downs that they face in their marriage. Engrossing!

'There is something in a treasure that fastens upon a man's mind. He will pray and blaspheme and still persevere, and will curse the day he ever heard of it, and will let his last hour come upon him unawares, still believing that he missed it only by a foot. He will see it every time he closes his...

A young sea captain tests his mettle off the coast of Siam in this nineteenth-century psychological tale from the author of Heart of Darkness. When his sailing ship is anchored in the Gulf of Siam—now Thailand—a first-time sea captain questions his ability to command. Anxious and eager for his...

"Nostromo" is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which belong to the period following upon the publication of the "Typhoon" volume of short stories. I don't mean to say that I became then conscious of any impending change in my mentality and in my attitude towards...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Ever since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided gently in smooth water. After a sixty days' passage I was anxious to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics. The more enthusiastic...

Of 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...

For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea - seemed to shatter them-selves upon an adamantine surface...

Vanaf het vallen van de avond tot in het holst van de nacht vertelt Marlow zijn scheepskameraden het beklemmende verhaal van zijn tocht over de rivier de Kongo. In opdracht van een Belgische handelsmaatschappij vaart hij met een afgeleefde boot naar het hart van Afrika, op zoek naar de mysterieuze...

This is the story of an unloveable rogue named Peter Willems, and his lust for the daughter of an Indonesian chief.

Through a business misadventure, the European Axel Heyst ends up living on an island in what is now Indonesia, with a Chinese assistant Wang. Heyst visits a nearby island when a female band is playing at a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg. Schomberg attempts to force himself sexually on one of the band...

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On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the perils...

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. A hundred years ago a seaman’s life was full of danger, but Jim, the first mate on board the Patna, is not afraid of danger. He is...