Joseph Conrad: 705 books

Más que centrarse exhaustivamente en el desarrollo militar de la época, el autor conduce su cámara hacia dos jóvenes oficiales del 4º y 7º de Húsares: el ayudante de campo D´Hubert y el oficial del 7º, Feraud. Conrad nos señala los dos...

Estos textos componen un vivo retrato de la relación entre el hombre y el mar en una época en que la llegada del vapor supuso el fin de la hegemonía de los barcos de vela. Considerado como el cruce entre un cantar de gesta sobre la navegación a vela y la biblia del oleaje, "El espejo del...

C'è una nave immobile in mezzo all'Oceano Indiano. Non c'è vento, ma le vele sono scosse dalla paura e dalle preoccupazioni dell'equipaggio. In pochi giorni molti marinai finiscono vittime di una strana epidemia e gli stessi ufficiali perdono il controllo. Tutto è in mano a un giovane capitano,...

"Mit den Augen des Westens" gehört zu den großen politisch-historischen Romanen des Autors. Anhand der Geschichte des Russen Rasumow erzählt Conrad von Verstrickungen im politischen Wirrwarr der Revolution, Spionage und Gegenspionage, Gewalt und Mord.

A gripping tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion, set amid the mist-shrouded mountains of a fictional South American republic, employs flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men. Conrad's deep moral consciousness and masterful narrative technique are at their best in this, one of his greatest works.

In the back streets of nineteenth-century London, a group of revolutionaries plot an incident intended to turn English complacency on its ear. Their objective: the destruction of one of the nation's proudest monuments of scientific achievement, the Greenwich Observatory. Unbeknownst to the schemers,...

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.

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

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. Le personnage principal est Verloc, agent secret infiltrant...

Le recueil se compose de deux récits, qui partagent deux traits communs. L'un est une même technique de narration : un narrateur non identifié rapporte les dires d'un autres narrateur, on a un récit dans le récit. L'autre est que le narrateur identifié est le même : un vieux marin, nommé Charles...

Por força de certos caprichos do destino, um jovem marinheiro que pensava ter abandonado a carreira no mar vê-se de repente nomeado capitão de um navio mercante. Em meio aos ímpetos da juventude, vive a aventura de comandar um navio que aprende a amar e uma tripulação digna de "imorredouro...