Joseph Conrad: 705 books

A classic story of sea-faring life at the turn of the century; Captain Macwhirr, estranged from his family and his crew, sails the Siamese steam Nan-Shan into the center of a typhoon.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. I don’t know whether I ought to offer an apology for this collection which has more to do with life than with letters. Its appeal is made to orderly minds. This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. In the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and part-owner of the important newspaper.

We knew him in those unprotected days when we were content to hold in our hands our lives and our property. None of us, I believe, has any property now, and I hear that many, negligently, have lost their lives; but I am sure that the few who survive are not yet so dim-eyed as to miss in the befogged...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Eccentric Captain Hagberd has been waiting for years for his son to come home from the sea. He has scrimped and saved, outfitting a house for Harry to inherit upon his return, which will be in only "one...

Prince Roman is a Pole who gives up his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as a (virtually) unknown soldier resisting Russian oppression. When captured, he has every opportunity to escape punishment, but declares himself unequivocally committed to Polish liberation. As a result he suffers...

Un étudiant russe trouve un soir chez lui, caché, l'assassin d'un ministre de la répression tsariste survenue des heures plus tôt. Ce dernier lui demande de l'aider à fuir. Notre héros accepte, mais finit par le dénoncer à la police. Il se trouve alors pris dans un engrenage et est engagé pour...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Several of us, all more or less connected with the sea, were dining in a small river-hostelry not more than thirty miles from London, and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to which our coasting...

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Marlow navega pel riu Congo a la recerca del misteriós Kurtz, el cap desaparegut d'una explotació d'ivori a l'Àfrica. Durant el camí, Marlow descobrirà la situació en què viuen els expedicionaris i comercials europeus, la seva brutalitat envers els negres i les grotesques conductes dels nadius...

El argumento de esta pequeña pieza, la cual tuvo tres títulos (El duelo, Los duelistas, o Un asunto de honor, este último a sugerencia de su amigo Ford Madox Ford), nos lleva a las campañas napoleónicas entre 1801-1815. Más que centrarse exhaustivamente en el desarrollo militar de la época, el autor conduce su cámara hacia dos jóvenes oficiales.

El relato “Una avanzada del progreso” se remite al centro de África. Allí, en un lugar perdido en lo profundo de la selva, la Gran Compañía Civilizadora ha erigido una factoría, una barraca de cañas frente a un río, un diminuto punto entre muchos....

Héroe del mar, (capitán whalley) descubridor de nuevas rutas, se debe a se honor y valor. Su hija trabajadora en sus mares, es ayudada con un pequeño barco. Deja para ella la herencia. El capitán es amenazado por una nueva circunstancia”el amor”.

Un nativo de la cordillera oriental de los Cárpatos, Yanko Goorall, sobrevive al hundimiento de un buque al que ha sido enrolado por la fuerza y que ha naufragado en la costa de Eastbay. Desesperado, llega al valle de Colebrook buscando ayuda pero los habitantes del pueblo, gente huraña...