Joseph Conrad: 705 books

L'Agent secret - Joseph Conrad  Descriptif : Le sujet est l'histoire noire et comique des espions, terroristes, anarchistes et agents provocateurs d'une puissance étrangère non nommée (mais ressemblant à la Russie) dans les ruelles mal famées de Londres au début du xxe siècle....

The Mirror of the Sea is Joseph Conrad’s true-life account of his seventeen-year odyssey at sea, told through a series of essays. Portraying the ocean as a metaphor against which men could measure themselves, Conrad hints at the themes of his later fictional works.

Der vorliegende erste Band Erzählungen von Joseph Conrad enthält eine Anzahl Geschichten, die dem deutschen Leser geraume Zeit nicht zugänglich waren. Die Veröffentlichung dieser nach Form und Inhalt gleich meisterhaften Prosastücke des Dichters ermöglicht die Wiederentdeckung eines wenig gekannten...

Das Herz der Finsternis ist in eine Rahmenhandlung eingebettet: Auf der nächtlich an der Themsemündung in Gravesend stillliegenden Seeyacht Nellie erzählt der ehemalige Seemann Marlow seinen vier Freunden, die das Band der See eint, eine Episode aus seinem Leben. Er beschreibt seine Sehnsucht,...

The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough’s meticulously re-edited text.Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad’s style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow’s...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Originally published in 1904, Nostromo is considered by many to be Conrad's supreme achievement. Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, the novel reveals the effects of unbridled greed and imperialist...

First serialized in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, “Heart of Darkness” is the story of steamboat captain Charlie Marlow’s voyage into the primitive interior of the Congo of Africa. As a manager of a Belgian ivory company, Marlow travels up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, an agent of the ivory company....

Conrad's aim was 'by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel . . . before all, to make you see' Heart of Darkness, his exploration of European colonialism in Africa and of elusive human values, embodies more profoundly than almost any other modern fiction the difficulty of...

"The book is absorbingly interesting: dramatic, subtle, fascinating with allurement." ― The New York Times. Captain Tom Lingard is on his way to help his friends, a Malay prince and princess, reclaim their stolen land when he gets distracted by a marooned yacht. Lingard feels obliged to...

'no consideration, no delicacy, no tenderness, no scruples should stand in the way of a woman ... from taking the shortest cut towards securing for herself the easiest possible existence' Chance(1914) was the first of Conrad's novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his...

The five stories brought together in Tales of Unrest (1898) mark a turning point in the writer's career. Conrad's first short story collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft staking a claim to diverse cultural and fictional territories. The introduction situates the writing...

"Gayet iyi biliyorum ki o sandala atladım."Patna gemisinin ikinci kaptanı Jim, kahraman olmayı düşleyen bir gençtir. Ama Patna batma tehlikesiyle karşı karşıya kalınca Jim korkar ve kahramanlık hayallerini bırakıp gemiden atlar. Soruşturma sonucunda kaptanlıktan men cezası alır; ama...

These are not Conrad's most famous stories. "The Partner" is a grim tale of human weakness spiralling down to a predictable horror; whereas his humorously baroque "The Inn of the Two Witches" reminds in its tone of Washington Irving in LEGENDS OF THE ALHAMBRA, though set in a later...

This is a collection of short-stories which spans Conrad's literary career published shortly after his death. Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist. His success is even more amazing since he did not learn to speak English until he was in his 20's. Conrad's narrative style places him at the beginning...