Joseph Conrad

An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vigar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a...

A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love with the daughter. Conflict arises when other influences cause distrust in the business partnership and the...

Almayer’s Folly is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. Kaspar Almayer is a white European. He agrees to marry a native Malayan captured by Captain Tom Lingard, his employer, believing the...

Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk. The one exception is the loving, if...

Peter Willems is the outcast of the islands, in this, Joseph Conrad’s second novel published in 1896, inspired by his experience as ship’s mate on the trading vessel Vidar.Willems is confidential clerk to Hudig, a powerful merchant trading out of...

Embarquez pour un voyage inoubliable au cœur de l'Afrique avec le chef-d'œuvre intemporel de Joseph Conrad, "Au cœur des ténèbres". Alors que le protagoniste Charles Marlow navigue sur le dangereux fleuve Congo, les lecteurs sont plongés dans un monde...

Joseph Conrad's novel "Chance," published in 1913, is a captivating exploration of fate, coincidence, and the complexities of human relationships. The story follows Flora de Barral, a young woman who finds herself thrust into a world of uncertainty...

Apparently a two part story about a Damsel and a Knight, perhaps a damsel who depends upon the kindness of strangers. It was originally entitled "Dynamite" and first published by installments in the New York Herald. The book itself was the biggest...

Stories are one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements. Whether written down or spoken they have an ability to capture our imagination and thoughts, and take us on incredible journeys in the space of a phrase and the turn of a page.Within a few...

Questo romanzo breve, pubblicato nel 1902, è il romanzo più famoso di Joseph Conrad, ed è considerato un classico della letteratura inglese. Lo stile narrativo, a tratti impressionistico, ha ispirato molti scrittori moderni. Il racconto è ambientato...

-En español neutro, narración humana- Es un cuento extenso o novela corta de 1899 del escritor polaco-británico Joseph Conrad, que aborda temas como el colonialismo, el choque de culturas, el racismo y la violencia humana. La traducción del título a...

Marlow, agente comercial británico, se ve obligado a remontar el río Congo en busca de su compañero Kurtz, el jefe de una explotación de marfil que al parecer ha cruzado la línea que separa el bien del mal y se ha entregado con placer a las más...

El corazón de las tinieblas (Heart of Darkness) es un cuento extenso o novela corta de 1899 del escritor polaco-británico Joseph Conrad, que aborda temas como el colonialismo, el choque de culturas, el racismo y la violencia humana. La traducción del...

Sherlock Holmes viaja al valle de Sussex, donde John Douglas, un caballero americano que reside en Inglaterra, ha sido violentamente asesinado en su mansión, una antigua fortaleza aparentemente inexpugnable. En esta obra de Arthur Conan Doyle,...

A wonderful anthology of fifteen of the great classic Novellas.1. Immensee by Theodor Storm2. The Jew's Beech Tree by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff3. The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad4. The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy5. Mad Monkton by Wilkie Collins6....

Four gripping tales by the master of Adventure Stories, Joseph Conrad. "The Tale", "The Inn of the Two Witches", "The Secret Sharer", "The Idiots". Author - Joseph Conrad. Narrator - Cathy Dobson. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

“‘...he seemed to stare... with that wide and immense stare embracing, condemning, loathing all the universe. I seemed to hear the whispered cry, “The horror! The horror!”’” On a becalmed yawl in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells a tale of Africa. His...

“A weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares.” This is how Marlowe describes his journey into the Belgian Congo. And while Europeans go mad, Corporations turn tyrannous, and the legend of a great Ivory hunter is dangled before him, Marlowe...

Joseph Conrad’s searing tale of one of the strangest and most memorable journeys ever takenQuite simply the scariest book ever written, this is a searing tale of one of the strangest and most memorable journeys ever undertaken – to the heart of a...

Heart of Darkness tells of the conflicting drives of two men—Charles Marlow, the captain of a steamboat, and Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious figure who oversees a trading post in Africa. After an arduous journey, Marlow finally encounters Kurtz, and the men...

‘Heart of Darkness’, the famous novella by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1902, reveals the disgust at the cruelty that the author observed when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. Although no territory is named in the text, the story is based...

Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and minds as a mysterious shadow, Heart of Darkness famously explores the rituals of civilisation and barbarism, and...

The classic novel that inspired Apocalypse NowA European trading concern hires Marlow to pilot a boat up the Congo River in search of Kurtz—a first-class ivory agent and the manager of the company’s highly profitable Inner Station—who is believed to...

Heart of Darkness is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. This book was the basis for Francis Ford Coppola's classic...