Joseph Conrad

Almayer’s Folly , Joseph Conrad’s first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Nadine Gordimer writes in her Introduction, “Conrad’s writing is lifelong questioning . . . What was ‘ Almayer’s Folly ’? The pretentious house never lived in? His obsession with gold? His obsessive love for his daughter, whose progenitors, the Malay race, he despised? All three?” Conrad established in Almayer’s Folly the themes of betrayal, isolation, and colonialism that he would explore throughout the rest of his life and work.

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 speak English well until he was in his 20s. He is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence and Graham Greene. Writing during the apogee of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the British Merchant Navy to create novels and short stories that reflected aspects of a world-wide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul. Amongst his best known works are Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Under Western Eyes (1911), Victory (1915) and The Rescue (1920).

The story deals with two European men, named Kayerts and Carlier, who are assigned to a trading post in a remote part of the African Jungle. There they take part in ivory trading, hoping to financially benefit the company as well as themselves. With no specific tasks or important things to be done, they both become increasingly isolated and demoralized as the time goes by. At one point in the story, the native Makola, serving as Kayerts's and Carlier's bookkeeper, initiates an exchange of slaves for ivory. Initially Kayerts and Carlier are stunned and scandalized by the idea, yet eventually they accept the deal and aid Makola for his huge profit. Both men are continuously plagued by diseases and grow very weak physically towards the end of the story. Finally, a seemingly trivial matter - sugar - sparks an irrational, uncontrolled and violent conflict between them, and ends tragically as Kayerts accidentally shoots and kills Carlier. At the end of the story, just when the company steamboat approaches the station two months later than it should have, Kayerts hangs himself out of desperation.

Uma das mais importantes obras da literatura mundial e inspiração para o filme Apocalypse Now, Coração das Trevas tem nova tradução, de José Rubens Siqueira, 60 ilustrações do artista plástico Cláudio Dantas e textos extra de Ana Maria Bahiana e Christian Dunker. "Não quero aborrecer muito vocês com o que aconteceu comigo.", diz o marinheiro Marlow aos colegas de navegação enquanto anoitece no Tâmisa. Ele começa então a relatar sua experiência no período em que esteve à frente de um barco a vapor em um rio na África. Ao chegar no Congo, Marlow conta ter recebido a missão de resgatar Kurtz, um brilhante comerciante que aparentemente havia perdido a sanidade. A viagem rio acima em busca desse misterioso homem é acompanhada de uma jornada pessoal para dentro das trevas e da loucura que habitam dentro de si. A história de Marlow e Kurtz já foi adaptada diversas vezes para outras mídias — cinema, ópera, e até para rádio, pelas mãos de Orson Welles. Mas sua adaptação mais famosa é o filme Apocalyse Now, de Francis Ford Coppola, que transpõe a narrativa do colonialismo africano para a guerra do vietnã. Esta nova edição conta com ilustrações de Cláudio Dantas, textos de Ana Maria Bahiana e Christian Dunker e uma tradução inédita do renomado tradutor José Rubens Siqueira, responsável por verter para a língua portuguesa livros como Desonra, de J.M. Coetzee e Grandes Esperanças, de Charles Dickens.

Esta es la novela en la que Francis Ford Coppola se basó para escribir Apocalypse Now. Marlow, agente comercial británico, se ve obligado a remontar el rí­o Congo en busca de su compañero Kurtz. A medida que el barco avance por territorios cada vez más inhóspitos, Marlow se irá construyendo una imagen mitificada de Kurtz. En realidad, encontrará un mundo apocalíptico y tenebroso, gobernado por un cí­nico que simboliza la degradación moral y las contradicciones de un hombre ante la fuerza indómita de la naturaleza.

Marlow, la voce narrante di questo romanzo, racconta la storia di Kurtz, misterioso personaggio che vive tra i nativi del Congo, guidandoli nelle loro scorribande per razziare avorio. A loro volta gli indigeni lo venerano come un dio in rituali dall'inaudita crudeltà. Marlow parte alla ricerca di Kurtz in quello che più che un viaggio verso una meta si rivela l'esplorazione dell'"orrore" di una conoscenza che significa fino in fondo il brutto di se stesso e della propria civiltà.

Detrás de la fachada de una tienda del Soho que vende mercancía un tanto dudosa vive Verloc con su mujer Winnie, la madre de ella y Stevie, el hermano de ésta. Verloc es un anarquista indolente que camufla sus actividades políticas bajo el velo de una vida doméstica y familiar. De acuerdo con Vladimir, un siniestro diplomático, durante los últimos años Verloc ha hecho bien poco para merecerse ni la más mínima cantidad de dinero pagado por su embajada y ya va siendo hora de provocar a la clase media. Verloc acepta la misión de Vladimir y pone una bomba en el Observatorio de Greenwich. Pero, después de la explosión, Verloc se da cuenta de que ha destruido bastante más que la complacencia de la burguesía inglesa. El agente secreto es, sin duda alguna, una de las grandes novelas del siglo XX. La descripción brillante del submundo del terrorismo, su ironía sin concesiones y la sátira negra sobre una sociedad moralmente corrupta es la culminación de muchas de las influencias de Conrad.

A traves de un personaje ficticio (el viejo marinero "Marlow"), Conrad describe una travesia por el rio Congo en busca del senor "Kurtz" que es el jefe de una explotacion de marfil. El encuentro con Kurtz, sera la confirmacion de la hipocrita actitud colonialista y pone en tela de juicio su caracter de cruzada moral y comercial. El director de cine Francis Ford Coppola se baso en este breve relato para su pelicula Apocalypse Now, que si bien estaba ambientada en la guerra de Vietnam, mantenia el espiritu del relato de Conrad.

Escrita en forma de un largo monólogo, "El corazón de las tinieblas" es a la vez una sátira de los abusos de la colonización europea en el corazón del África negra y una alegoría moral de la degradación del ser humano ante las fuerzas corruptoras de la naturaleza salvaje. Símbolo de esta degradación, que sumirá a una mente brillante en las tinieblas de la locura, es el agente Kurtz (el coronel Kurtz, interpretado por Marlon Brando en la película "Apocalypse Now" de Francis Ford Coppola, basada en esta novela), cuyo deseo insaciable de riqueza y de poder le llevará a arrastrar impávido el horror y la abominación de una barbarie ancestral. Una travesía frenética en el corazón de un continente hostil y devastado, donde la oposición entre civilización y barbarie adoptará sus formas más funestas y destructivas.

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Estos textos componen un vivísimo 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 mar es la insuperable reminiscencia de una forma de vida y una obra imprescindible para comprender a su autor.«Todo el libro es Conrad cien por cien, y, además, el mejor Conrad, el que sabía dibujar un hecho del mar con la más perfecta forma literaria, y el que sabía ilustrar un acontecimiento narrativo con la más acertada imagen marinera.»Juan Benet

A Conradian romance: a sweeping saga set in the Indian Ocean basin, against a turbulent background of barely suppressed hostilities between Dutch and British merchant navies, told by one of Conrad's classic detached narrators. In the end, the unique perspective of the sharply etched character of Freya is one of Conrad's most piercing studies of how the lust for power can drive men to greatness—or its opposite.

Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in “one of the darkest places on earth.” Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad. A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.

Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook.Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary.The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.

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 journey, and his eventual encounter with Kurtz, horrify and perplex him, and call into question the very bases of civilization and human nature. Endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted for film, radio, and television, the story shows Conrad at his most intense and sophisticated. The other three tales in this volume depict corruption and obsession, and question racial assumptions. Set in the exotic surroundings of Africa, Malaysia, and the east, they variously appraise the glamour, folly, and rapacity of imperial adventure. This revised edition uses the English first edition texts and has a new chronology and bibliography.

"Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction," by Joseph Conrad, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics" series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: * New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars* Biographies of the authors* Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events* Footnotes and endnotes* Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work* Comments by other famous authors* Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations* Bibliographies for further reading* Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. One of the most haunting stories ever written, Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" follows Marlow, a riverboat captain, on a voyage into the African Congo at the height of European colonialism. Astounded by the brutal depravity he witnesses, Marlow becomes obsessed with meeting Kurtz, a famously idealistic and able man stationed farther along the river. What he finally discovers, however, is a horror beyond imagining. "Heart of Darkness" is widely regarded as a masterpiece for its vivid study of human nature and the greed and ruthlessness of imperialism.This collection also includes three of Conrad's finest short stories: "Youth," the author's largely autobiographical tale of a young man's ill-fated sea voyage, in which Marlow makes his first appearance, "The Secret Sharer," and "Amy Forster." Features a map of the Congo Free State. A. Michael Matin is a professor in the English Department of Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. He has published articles on various twentieth-century British and postcolonial writers.

In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Conrad wrote two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fiction of the 20th century. "Heart of Darkness" and "The Secret Sharer" encapsulate his literary achievements--and his haunting portrayal of the dark side of man. Revised reissue.

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Romanul a inspirat, in 1979, celebra ecranizare Apocalypse now, in regia lui Francis Ford Coppola, cu Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando si Robert Duvall in rolurile principale. Charlie Marlow e capitanul onest al unui mic vas comercial ce strabate fluviul Congo in cautarea unui negustor de fildes enigmatic. Calatorind spre destinatia dezvaluita pe parcursul unei intregi povesti rupte parca dintr-un thriller, Marlow aude la rastimpuri un nume rostit cu respect, cu teama sau cu ura de tovarasii sai. Misteriosul personaj Kurtz ocupa treptat intregul fundal al povestii, al carei final intirzie, aminat de trecerea printr-o jungla intunecata, stranie, populata de canibali singerosi si strabatuta de un fluviu capricios, ce face inaintarea micii expeditii dureros de inceata.

Belgijskie Kongo. Biali koloniści bezlitośnie wykorzystują rdzennych mieszkańców Czarnego Lądu. Jednym z nich jest Kurtz - człowiek budzący respekt i szacunek, w rzeczywistości potwór, dla którego czarni mieszkańcy Afryki to bestie zasługujące jedynie na unicestwienie. Jądro ciemności, które nosi w sobie każdy z nas, w tym opowiadaniu poznaje Marlow, człowiek, dla którego wyprawa do kolonii staje się wielką podróżą poza czas i przestrzeń, w najciemniejsze zakamarki ludzkiej natury...

By a stagnant lagoon, as his love lies dying, Arsat tells the story of their meeting and the price he had to pay to be with her.``

Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. This is indeed a work full of "sudden passions," in which Conrad is able to show how the full intensity of existence can be experienced by the man who, in the words of the older Captain Giles, is prepared to "stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience." A subtle and penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood, The Shadow-Line investigates varieties of masculinity and desire in a subtext that counters the tale's seemingly conventional surface.

Colección Rutas. Incluye también "Los idiotas". 1ª edición: septiembre 1982 2ª edición: enero 1986

Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. The novel is counted as one of 100 best books of the 20th century.Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent world. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.Contents: Lord JimMemoirs & Letters:A Personal Record; or Some ReminiscencesThe Mirror of the SeaNotes on Life & LettersBiography & Critical Essays:Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh WalpoleJoseph Conrad by John Albert MacyA Conrad Miscellany by John Albert MacyJoseph Conrad by Virginia Woolf

Romanens berättare är sjöfararen och sjökaptenen Marlow, som för befäl över en flodångare som har i uppdrag att segla upp för Kongofloden till det innersta av Afrika, till den belgiska handelsstation som ligger längst bort, längst in i mörkrets hjärta. Det är sent 1800-tal och dessa områden är vita fläckar på européernas världskarta. Här i det okända, befolkat av svarta, härskar den vita elfenbensjägaren Kurtz oinskränkt och sprider skräck och död omkring sig... Mörkrets hjärta anses allmänt vara ett mästerverk för sin livfulla studie av den mänskliga naturen och imperialismens girighet och hänsynslöshet. I bokens extramaterial ingår novellen Pionjärerna, en berättelse från en européisk handelsstation i Afrika. Som extramaterial finns också en essä och brev skrivna av Joseph Conrad då han själv var sjökapten i Kongo. Mörkrets hjärta och Pionjärerna är de enda skönlitterära texter som Joseph Conrad skrev om Afrika. *** Första svenska upplaga från 1949 här.

Narcissus'un Zencisi, deniz edebiyatının en büyük adı, en usta kalemi diye tanımlanan Joseph Conrad'ın bir uzun öyküsüdür. Yazarın kişisel deneyimlerinden kaynaklanan bu öyküyü okurken, fırtınalı bir denizde dalgaların üzerinize doğru geldiğini, güvertesinde çaresizlik içinde kıvrandığınız teknenin alabora olma tehlikesiyle karşılaştığını sanki oradaymışçasına hissedeceksiniz. Gemi mürettebatıyla elele verip teknenizi kurtarmaya çalışacak, bu arada sizin varlığınızı umursamayan patrona karşı yine birlikte hınçlanacaksınız. Üzerleri beyaz köpüklerle taçlanmış dalgaların peş peşe şahlanıp devrilmesini, görkemli bir deniz tablosuna bakar gibi izleyeceksiniz. Bir deniz yolculuğunu, bir fırtınayı, bir mürettebatın çektiği çileyi de, sevinçleri de paylaşarak bir solukta okuyacağınız bir başyapıt.

Il racconto autobiografico Natale sul mare, scritto nel 1923, raccoglie vari episodi vissuti durante le festività trascorse in nave anziché in famiglia, tra i saluti distaccati degli ufficiali il mattino del giorno di festa, l’eccezionale scambio di doni tra imbarcazioni che si affiancano, i barili pieni di giornali e fichi secchi, e infine la gioia nel non dover pensare all’acquisto dei regali, pratica troppo convenzionale per un lupo di mare. Oltre a Natale sul mare, questo volume raccoglie alcuni degli articoli e appunti di Joseph Conrad scritti negli ultimi anni. In essi si rintraccia quella malinconia che accompagnò le fasi finali della vita dello scrittore, messo di fronte ai grandi cambiamenti in atto nell’arte della navigazione e all’inevitabile declino di un mondo a lui caro e familiare.

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 deeply moral consciousness and masterful narrative technique are at their best in this, one of his finest works.

Džozef Konrad svakako nije klasik strave u žanrovskom smislu, iako se u svem svom bogatstvu može i kao takav posmatrati i poštovati; ali nesumnjivo jeste klasik svetske književnosti čiji ga je senzibilitet za mračna tajanstva čoveka, društva i kosmosa dovoljno često dovodio u blizinu tema i motiva strave, pa je njima shodnom retorikom iskazivao svoj svetonazor i, kao u slučaju priča odabranih za ovu knjigu, nepogrešivo umeo da izazove i jezu… i zapitanost nad srcem tame koje svako od nas nosi u grudima.

This selection of four tales by Conrad is about radical insecurity: lone human beings involuntarily forced into confrontation with a terrifying universe in which they can never be wholly at home. It leads with The End of the Tether and includes also The Duel, The Return, and Amy Foster - Sailor, Soldier, Rich Man, Immigrant. These powerful shorter works remind readers that Conrad is not just the teller of sea stories and tales of imperialist action, and not only the author of the ubiquitous Heart of Darkness. This is the Conrad who is master of the terror element - global crisis, individual test, and personal trauma - in modern literature. For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

"The Heart of Darkness" is the story of Charlie Marlow's voyage from the civilized world of Europe into the primitive interior of the Congo of Africa. As a manager of a Belgian ivory company, Marlow travels into the interior of Africa up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, an agent of the ivory company. Deep in the interior of Africa Marlow finds Kurtz living among the savage natives who revere him as a God. In "The Heart of Darkness," The Polish born Conrad has crafted a classic of English literature. It is an intense psychological drama that deals with the very nature of good and evil. With this narrative Conrad draws sharp contrast between the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world and presents the reader with a strong commentary of the evil savagery that lies at the heart of human existence.

A disturbing and powerful portrait of the sea and sea life.

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Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats, and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and savage butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.

This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, a Russian spy who is also working for the police, is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.

A young man sets out on his first voyage as captain, aboard a vessel and among a crew that are equally unfamiliar to him. A mysterious night-swimmer climbs aboard, and, in keeping the presence of this fugitive a secret, the skipper risks both his captaincy and the safety of his ship. A test of nerve in the Gulf of Siam ensues.

This is a collection of gripping tales of crime, crisis or disaster, in which ordinary people find themselves tested in extraordinary circumstances.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Tale by Joseph Conrad The Tale by Joseph Conrad brings together in one collection four stories by Joseph Conrad. Set onboard a ship during an unnamed war, the title story is a harrowing account of guilt and responsibility, showing Conrad at his most accomplished as a master of psychological penetration. Accompanying this is another study of the brutal turns of fortune visited on the unwary by war: 'The Warrior's Soul' takes place during Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and traces the interweaving relationship between a beautiful woman and the two men who love her. 'Prince Roman', meanwhile, is one of Conrad's earliest stories, and the only piece in his entire oeuvre that touches on his homeland, Poland. The collection concludes with 'The Black Mate', a witty and light-hearted illustration of life aboard ship." "Spanning Joseph Conrad's entire literary career, these four stories touch on some of his major interests - war, imperialism, life at sea - showing him at his most intimate and ambitious."

‘It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head’ . . . Set in a desolate English port, Conrad’s spare, savage turn-of-the-century story of lives haunted by the sea. One of Conrad’s most powerful, gripping stories. [ Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) ] Little Black Classics celebrates Penguin’s 80th birthday, introducing 80 works from the classics.

Captain MacWhirr cannot fathom anything outside the facts of his own life. His first mate, Mr. Jukes, is the perfect contrast as an imaginative man prone to speaking in figurative language. Though they are opposites, MacWhirr and Jukes respect each other and run a tight ship, until the crew notices the barometer predicting a severe storm. Jukes and the crew suggest alternate paths to MacWhirr, but he is unconvinced. Since MacWhirr has not experienced the storm yet, he doesn't believe that it really can be much of a problem, and if they sailed around it, they would waste time. Jukes is shocked at the decision, but respects MacWhirr's conviction. They keep their course, setting sail to go directly through the storm. Though the crew objects, Jukes and MacWhirr are convinced they each made the right call, but disastrous outcomes are inevitable when facts are ignored. Now in the heart of a great typhoon, MacWhirr and Jukes must work together to save their crew. Facing tuberous winds, powerful waves and the sea's worst moods, the combination of MacWhirr's rationalism and Jukes' imagination prove to be vital. Based off of events in Joseph Conrad's sea life, Typhoon is an allegorical work that explores consequences of making decisions without considering facts or other perspectives, while hailing the importance of tolerance and collaboration. With satirical characters and a thrilling setting, Typhoon is both thought-provoking and adventurous. First published in 1902, Joseph Conrad's has been reprinted in many publications, including literary magazines and literary collections. Typhoon depicts a story of high stakes and adventure with a uniquely observant narrative style, shouldering Conrad's stylistic legacy of masterful prose. Previously published among other literary works, this edition allows Joseph Conrad's Typhoon stand on its own. Now with a new, eye-catching cover design and printed in a modern, easy-to-read font, Typhoon is accessible for a contemporary audience. Even nearly one-hundred and twenty years later, Conrad's adventurous, allegorical work is still relevant and intriguing as it acknowledges the various personalities required for human success and survival.

A Penguin Classics edition of “Typhoon,” “Amy Foster,” “Falk,” and “Tomorrow” In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate, the differences between instinct and intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival. 'Falk', the companion sea-story, contrasts, as Conrad once put it, 'common sentimentalism with the frank standpoint of a more or less primitive man', a man with a conscience, however, about the girl he desires. In one of the 'land-stories' Conrad explores the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England; in the other, the plight of a woman ironically trapped by the unwitting alliance of two retired widowers - each blind in his own way. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny and the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society. This new edition uses the English first edition text and has a new bibliography and chronology. About the For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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 when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from the detachment and isolation that have inhibited and influenced his life. Marked by a violent and tragic conclusion, Victory is both a tale of rescue and adventure and a perceptive study of a complex relationship and of the power of love.

Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, amongst others, on the idea of Fidelity - Joseph Conrad Written at various times, under various influences, the four stories contained in Within the Tides are linked by Conrad's treatment of loyalty and betrayal. They range in setting from the Far East via eighteenth-century Spain to England. The tone shifts from the tragic inevitability of The Planter of Malata and the pathos of Because of the Dollars to the gothic The Inn of the Two Witches and the grim humour of The Partner. The form of the stories was experimental but does not obscure Conrad's humanity or his search for moral truth. Here, then, we have a master of the English language - F.R. Leavis The cover shows a detail from A Coast Scene by Henry Wallis

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 of the Modernist period of literature. Past adventures of the sea bind five men together as this story unfolds. '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.

Роман “Серце пітьми/Heart of Darkness” (1899) британського письменника польського походження Джозефа Конрада (1857-1924) по праву вважається шедевром модерністської літератури. Користаючи з тривалої стоянки в порту, головний герой роману, моряк та блукалець Чарльз Марлоу розповідає про свою подорож у пошуках сумнозвісного торговця слоновою кісткою Курца. Подорожуючи вверх річкою в серце африканського континенту, він поступово стає все більш одержимим цією таємничою постаттю, врешті знаходячи його – майже при смерті, напівзбожеволілого та винного в невимовних злочинах. Нетривале знайомство з Курцом та жахи, побачені у верхів’ях Конго, спонукають Марлоу до радикального переосмислення не лише своїх власних поглядів і цінностей, але й цінностей так званої західної цивілізації загалом. “Серце пітьми” – це класичний модерністський роман, що досліджує межі людського досвіду та кошмарні реалії імперіалізму. Роман слугував літературною основою знаменитого фільму “Апокаліпсис сьогодні” Френсіса Форда Копполи.