Joseph Conrad: 705 books

Book cover of Almayer's Folly

Almayer's Folly

A story of an Eastern river

by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2019

Conrad's first novel. Kaspar Almayer is a Dutch trader operating out of Borneo in the late 19th century. He has a daughter with a local woman, and names her Nina. Almayer is convinced he can locate a remote gold mine and thereby become a millionaire, until tragedy strikes his little family.
Book cover of Note ai miei libri
by Joseph Conrad
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 5, 2015

Una selezione delle più celebri note d’autore e prefazioni che Conrad inserì a corollario dei propri romanzi e racconti scritti tra il 1897 e il 1920. Da Il negro del Narciso ad Appunti di vita e di letteratura, si avvicendano le stesure di Cuore di tenebra, L’agente segreto e La linea d’ombra....
Book cover of The Secret Agent (Collins Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic – to terror, too, perhaps.’ Considered...
Book cover of The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed ancestor of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused motives that lie at the heart of political terrorism. In its use of powerful psychological...
Book cover of Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012

'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder - the man knows, and can look...
Book cover of Within the Tides
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013

Conrad's final collection of short stories first published in 1915.
Book cover of Heart of Darkness (Collins Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.’ At the peak of European...
Book cover of The End of the Tether
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

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...
Book cover of Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007

Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's...
Book cover of Victory

Victory

An Island Tale

by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters...
Book cover of Under Western Eyes
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010

Describes a band of frustrated revolutionary exiles in Geneva. This book is a study of individuals under pressure, and it remains a telling account of the fugitive life - especially in its portrait of Razumov, heir to the long line of Russian anti-heroes in Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Turgenev. In...
Book cover of Youth
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011

'Then, on a fine moonlight night, all the rats left the ship.' Five men sit around a mahogany table, drinking claret. As the wine loosens their tongues, one tells a story from his youth, recounting the strange voyage of the doomed ship Judea. Inspired by Conrad's own experiences at sea, Youth is a haunting tale about ill omens, the passing of time and the making of a man.
Book cover of Victory (Collins Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The girl he had come across … that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.’ Damaged by his father’s nihilistic philosophy,...
Book cover of Victory

Victory

An Island Tale

by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

Set in the islands of the Malay Archipelago, Victory tells the story of a disillusioned Swede, Axel Heyst, who rescues Lena, a young English musician, from the clutches of a brutish German hotel owner. Seeking refuge at Heyst’s remote island retreat on Samburan, the couple is soon besieged by three...
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