Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary
By: Joseph Conrad
Penguin inaugurates a series of revised editions of Conrad's finest works, with new introductions Exploring the workings of consciousness as well as the grim realities of imperialism, Heart of Darkness tells of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer,...
Published: Dec 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 192
Heart of Darkness & Selections from The Congo Diary
By: Joseph Conrad
In HEART OF DARKNESS, Conrad's most existential hero, Marlow, is the commander of a riverboat looking for ivory to trade in the Belgian Congo. His journey into the heart of the Congo is both a thrilling adventure and a symbolic excursion into the...
Published: Aug 1999
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 109
The Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer
By: Joseph Conrad
Two of Conrad's BEST-KNOWN works—in a single volume In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Joseph Conrad has written two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fiction of the twentieth century.
Published: May 1982
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 192
The Return
By: Joseph Conrad
An intense, psychologically charged domestic drama, The Return is a brilliant and haunting exploration of the insecurities that lie at the heart of human relationships. With a Foreword by Colm Tóibín. When successful businessman Alvan Hervey...
Published: Aug 2004
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 112
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
By: Joseph Conrad
'In "Heart of Darkness, Captain Marlowe must wend his way up the African Congo to recover the missing Colonel Kurtz in one of the greatest steamship adventures ever told. As Marlowe's ship "Nellie scrapes along the Congo, the voyage into...
Published: Sep 2003
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 304
Three Sea Stories: Typhoon, Falk, and the Shadow-Line (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
By: Joseph Conrad
Edited and with an Introduction by Dr Keith Carabine, Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by...
Published: Dec 1999
Genre: Fiction - General
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
By: Joseph Conrad
The finest of all Conrad's tales, Heart of Darkness is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer's agent, the renowned and formidable Mr. Kurtz. What he sees on his...
Published: Sep 2003
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 272
Heart of Darkness With Study Guide
By: Joseph Conrad
The With Study Guide series aims to help knowledge-hungry readers gain a greater understanding of and appreciation for the classics. Each title includes the full original text with a summary and analysis of each section to offer the most...
Published: May 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 112
A Personal Record
By: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to...
Published: Dec 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 112
A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences
By: Joseph Conrad
As Conrad writes in his introduction to these reminiscences, "[T]hese memories put down without any regard for established conventions have not been thrown off without system and purpose. They have their hope and their aim. The hope that from...
Published: Dec 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
Pages: 164
Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
By: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to...
Published: Oct 2002
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 164
Amy Foster
By: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to...
Published: Dec 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 48
An Outcast of the Islands
By: Joseph Conrad
Conrad's Second novel (An Outcast of the Islands) is about the colonial enterprise and their faults while they take a region. It details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds...
Published: Nov 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 224
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts (Oxford World's Classics)
By: Joseph Conrad
Chance(1914) was the first of Conrad's novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and abandoned young girl who is 'like a beggar, without a right to anything...
Published: Jan 1993
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 384
Falk: A Reminiscence
By: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to...
Published: Nov 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 76
Freya of the Seven Isles
By: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to...
Published: Jan 2009
Genre: Fiction - Action & Adventure
Pages: 88
Freya of the Seven Isles (The Art of the Novella)
By: Joseph Conrad
Unlike Conrad's better-known works, the focus of this tragic love story is a woman torn between her duty and her happiness. Freya of the Seven Isles is unmistakably Conrad, with conflicted characters and introspection, all upon the...
Published: Jan 2008
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 117
Gaspar Ruiz
By: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to...
Published: Nov 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 60
Heart of Darkness (Timeless Classics)
By: Joseph Conrad
In this symbolic story we follow Charles Marlow as he recounts his adventure to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary from dusk through to late night. The passage of time and the darkening sky during Marlow's narrative parallels...
Published: Feb 1995
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 90
Lord Jim
By: Joseph Conrad
A bold young English sailor has despised himself ever since an impulsive moment of cowardice. Jim moves East to Patusan, where natives worship him—and he may be able to find redemption...
Published: Feb 1981
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 352
Nostromo (Oxford World's Classics)
By: Joseph Conrad
One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo reenacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. In the harbor town of Sulaco, a vivid cast of characters is...
Published: Dec 2002
Genre: History - General
Pages: 544
Notes on Life and Letters
By: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to...
Published: Nov 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 196
Notes on My Books
By: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to...
Published: Dec 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 96
One Day More
By: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to...
Published: Dec 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 52
Some Reminiscences
By: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to...
Published: Dec 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 112
Tales of Hearsay
By: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to...
Published: Nov 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 96
Tales of Unrest
By: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to...
Published: Jan 2008
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 160
The Duel
By: Joseph Conrad
An exciting, swashbuckling thriller based on a true story about two of Napoleon's soldiers.Conrad's brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout...
Published: Aug 2011
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Pages: 112
The End of the Tether
By: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to...
Published: Nov 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 140
The Inheritors
By: Joseph Conrad
Large Format for easy reading. The first of three novels which Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford collaborated on, it tells the story of a struggling writer, his tragic love and his gradual destruction. A modernist science fiction work, it asks many...
Published: Oct 2005
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 188