Conrad: 1584 books

The recession has struck, and all John Gregor wants is steady work. At every job he finds, he encounters inept management, arbitrary rules and treacherous bureaucrats. However, when he is invited into a class-action lawsuit against a former employer, he begins to become curious about how much power...

"Amy Foster" is a short story by Joseph Conrad. A poor emigrant from Central Europe sailing from Hamburg to America is shipwrecked off the coast of England. The residents of nearby villages, at first unaware of the sinking, and hence of the possibility of survivors, regard him as...

"The Lagoon" is a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897. The story is about a white man, referred to as "Tuan", who is travelling through an Indonesian rainforest and is forced to stop for the night with a distant Malay friend...

“He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life.” One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is an immensely exciting tale of love, revolution, and politics set in the mythical South American country of Costaguana during...

Tampa takes place on a raw frontier in central Florida where white settlers are encroaching on the lands of the Seminole Indians. The U.S. Army is ordered to remove the Seminoles from Florida, but in a series of three wars, the Army takes heavy loses and fails to remove all of the Indians, who retreat...

World War 1 veterans survive the war but will they survive the chaos of 1932 Washington DC as members of the Bonus Army.

The powerful story-telling voice that has carried so many readers back into the world of the American frontier is heard again in these eight tales of pioneers and pioneer days by the author of The Sea of Grass, The Light in the Forest, The Waters of Kronos and The Town. Each story captures the force...

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...

Upon the breakout success of their travel agency blog, TrippyGirl, Amy Abel and her mother, Fanny, are asked to join a group of prominent travel writers on a scenic train tour of Patagonia. Their expedition seems to chug along smoothly until Fanny finds a body scavenged by condors in the wilderness....

To understand comedy is to understand humanity, for the comic sense is central to what it means to be human. Nearly all the major issues with which human beings have exercised themselves are touched upon in some manner by the comic spirit. Yet education in the art of comedy and in comic appreciation...

Lord Jim ist ein Roman von Joseph Conrad, zuerst publiziert im Jahr 1900. Der Roman gliedert sich in zwei Teile, eine psychologische Erzählung über Jims moralischen Fehler an Bord des Pilgerschiffs "Patna" und in eine Abenteuer-Geschichte über Jims Aufstieg und Niedergang unter den Leuten...

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (11.10.1825 - 28.11.1898) war ein Dichter des Realismus, und gehört zu den bedeutendsten Schweizer Dichtern des 19. Jahrhunderts. Meyers Roman "Die Versuchung des Pescara" erschien 1887.

The rugged North Coast is a haven for campers and hikers with countless trails and wondrous settings. Adventures in the wild that boyhood dreams are made of. This is one of many stories that describes how a commonplace camping trip with a group of teenage boys can so quickly become a lonely and harrowing...

In this collection of stories Conrad appears at the peak of his artistic creativity. The dimensions which are touched by his deeply sensitive mind and the broad canvases that he presents and portrays through his work are truly gripping. The multifarious issues of life are dwelled upon with deep alacrity. Engrossing!