Conrad: 1584 books

A house of haunted ghosts: it's horror in a sense, but not so much of the "horror genre" as of the small daily torments to which our choices lead us. Based on the enticing legend of the Winchester “Mystery” House—a labyrinthine edifice built by a guilt-ridden armaments heiress—the...

Book Three of The Copper & Cobalt Trilogy – A story of friendship, time travel and haunting adventure in ancient Wales. Bridget and Celena have shared a painful connection with Paul for thousands of years due to a tragedy in the ancient world – a crime that Bridget is still paying for...

Conrad's tale of life at sea follows steamship captain Tom Macwhirr—a man never afraid of the high seas’ monstrous storms. But this time he meets a storm with which his ship may not be able to compete. Macwhirr’s complex personality – a combination of courage and foolishness – is brought to bear on his battles with the ocean.

In the Malay Archipelago, Axel Heyst, a failed European businessman, rescues a young Englishwoman from a rapacious hotel owner.  Fleeing to a remote island, Heyst and the woman are pursued by thugs dispatched by the vengeful hotelier.  Written late in his career, Victory (1915) brought Conrad his first popular success.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.   In an era not unlike our own, in which menacing acts have become commonplace, Russian spymaster Vladimir seeks to undermine England’s “sentimental regard for liberty.” His challenge is how to...

The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th Century. The novel centers on Verloc, a shop-owner, phony-anarchist and double-agent, who becomes embroiled in an ambitious terrorist plan to bomb the Greenwich Observatory.

"Because of the Dollars" is a short story written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). First published in 1914, it is a typical Conradian tale of sea, sacrifice and disenchantment.

The Alicia Allen Investigates crime novels are fast-paced suspense mysteries, full of twists and turns, following in the tradition of writers such as Nicci French and Sue Grafton. A Model Murder draws scary, sometimes hilarious, parallels between alpha males in strip clubs and law firms. This...

The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first published in 1916 as a serial in New York's Metropolitan Magazine (September—October) in the English Review (September 1916-March 1917) and published...

A collection of short stories about people living in a fictional Kentucky town in the 1800s. The characters' lives intertwine through past, present and future creating a portrait of their community.

Although English was not his native tongue, Polish-born Joseph Conrad honed his language skills over his lifetime and would eventually become enshrined as one of the masters of English literature. As a sailor, he spent his free time during months-long voyages at sea writing stories, letters, and later,...

A fictionalised account of Conrad's dabbling in gunrunning and political conspiracy.

"Don Ferrante dagegen, erzählten sich die Ferraresen, habe zwar ebensowenig geleugnet, aber nach seiner zynischen Art nicht nur das Gericht, sondern auch die Hoheit des Herzogs und den Kardinal mit Schimpf und Hohn überschüttet. Jenen habe er einen engen Hirnkasten, diesen einen Philosophen...

Dieses eBook: "Das Amulett (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Zur Handlung: Hans Schadau ist der Erzähler der Geschichte. Zunächst schildert er seine Jugend, in der er wegen des Todes seiner...