Joseph Conrad
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Drawing upon his experiences as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River, Joseph Conrad wrote "An Outpost of Progress," a sharp critique of British colonialism that the master storyteller considered his best tale. A precursor to Heart of Darkness, it traces the physical and moral degradation of two English overseers at a remote African trading post, offering a compelling view of the destructive effects of cultural isolation.
This compilation presents...
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Inquieta recordar que un paisaje terrorífico muy semejante al que se vivió en Londres el 7 de julio de 2005 apareció descrito hace casi un siglo por Joseph Conrad en El agente secreto. Esto podría significar dos cosas: una, que los artistas se adelantan, a veces fatalmente, a su tiempo, y otra, que la humanidad no avanza, sino da vueltas sobre sí misma, fiel a sus miserias. Al final, lo que Conrad vio en la absurda actividad terrorista fue a...
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First serialized in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899, "Heart of Darkness" is the story of steamboat captain Charlie Marlow's voyage into the primitive interior of the Congo of Africa. As a manager of a Belgian ivory company, Marlow travels 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. While neither a critical nor financial success...
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The Point Of Honor is a historical fiction work by Joseph Conrad. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. At the beginning, Feraud is the one who jealously guards his honor and repeatedly demands satisfaction...
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Reflecting Conrad's genius for narrative that focuses on the quest for inner truths, The Arrow of Gold is an exploration of the dangerous appetites of men and of human vulnerability, as well as a profound meditation on the emotional boundary between people. During the Carlist war of the early 1870s, a young sailor, the unnamed protagonist, joins the champions of Don Carlos de Bourbon, pretender to the throne of Spain. The Carlists use the eager youth's...
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Contained within this volume are two of Joseph Conrad's great tales of the sea, "The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'" and "The Secret Sharer." Drawing from his own experiences as a seaman, Conrad's writing is rich with the details of a life lived at sea. In "The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'" a ship's crew struggles with morale as a black member of the crew lay dying. In the shorter work "The Secret Sharer" a captain on his night watch discovers an officer...
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Fluent from birth in French as well as his native Polish, Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) learned his third language, English, as an adult. And it was in English that he wrote his evocative stories and novels, drawing upon his experiences in the British and French navies to portray the struggles of humanity amid the world's vast indifference. This anthology offers readers the essential Joseph Conrad, including his debut novel, Almayer's Folly. Other features...
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El corazón de las tinieblas es sin duda reconocido como el mejor de los relatos de Joseph Conrad. El libro está ambientado en una atmósfera constante de misterio y amenaza, y narra el peligroso viaje de Marlow por un río africano (sin duda el Congo aunque no es nombrado en el relato) para relevar a un agente del director de la compañía que comercializa marfil internacionalmente, el famoso y formidable señor Kurtz.
Lo que el marino puede observar...
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Joseph Conrad's literary prowess reaches its zenith in "Lord Jim," an extraordinary novel that beckons readers into the turbulent seas of human morality, redemption, and the elusive quest for honor. Set against a backdrop of seafaring adventure and the exotic locales of the East, this masterpiece unfolds with a narrative cadence that echoes the ebb and flow of the tides, immersing readers in a story that transcends time.
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The Selected Works of Joseph Conrad includes the best-known of Joseph Conrad's work. This special ebook edition contains the short story "Youth," as well as the novels Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, and The Secret Agent.
Joseph Conrad is considered to be one of the greatest English-language novelists and a forerunner of modernist literature, and his writing style and characters have influenced such distinguished writers as F. Scott...
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The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows (1920) is one of Joseph Conrad's works contained in what is now sometimes called the Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar. Although it was the last of the three novels to be published, after Almayer's Folly (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896), the events related in the novel precede those. The story follows Captain Tom Lingard, the recurring protagonist...
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Un vieux capitaine se raconte.
Disparues les occasions qu'il aurait su comment saisir: et disparu aussi le troupeau aux ailes blanches de ces voiliers qui vivaient de la vie incertaine et turbulente des vents, et tiraient de grosses fortunes de l'écume de la mer. Dans un monde qui rognait les profits au strict minimum, dans un monde qui pouvait faire deux fois par jour le compte de son tonnage libre, et o les affrètements disponibles étaient...
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The Children of the Sea (1897) is a novella by Joseph Conrad. The story originally appeared with a title featuring a racial slur, a subject of controversy even before Chinua Achebe published his monumental essay "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness.'" Often considered the first major work of Conrad's career, The Children of the Sea is often read as an allegory on the dangers of individualism and the moral shortcomings of modern...
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[2016]
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Set sail for Africa and the Far East with this iconic tale of adventure from the author of Heart of Darkness. In this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale, Charles Marlow, Joseph Conrad's alter ego, shares the story of his first journey to the East. At the age of twenty, he becomes second mate aboard the ship the Judea. But disaster awaits the vessel after it leaves England, loaded with hundreds of tons of coal on its way to Thailand. A fierce...
75) Tales Of Hearsay
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This is a collection of short-stories which spans Conrad's literary career published shortly after his death. 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. This volume published in 1911 contains four tales; The Warrior's Soul, Prince Roman, The Tale, and The Black...
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Heart of Darkness is a novella written in 1899 by Anglo-Polish novelist Joseph Conrad. It is about a voyage into the Congo Free State in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow, an introspective sailor who takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo.
Marlow, aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames in London, recounts to his friends the story of his assignment to journey up...
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Conrad's last novel set in Genoa in early 1815. This is the story of Cosmo Latham, an Englishman and veteran of the late war against Napoleon, looking to see what he was unable to see earlier and perhaps even get a glimpse of the Emperor himself. But when he finds a girl from his youth, he finds that his emotions can get the better of him.
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Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, más conocido como Joseph Conrad (185 –1924), fue un novelista polaco que adoptó el inglés como lengua literaria. Conrad, cuya obra explora la vulnerabilidad y la inestabilidad moral del ser humano, es considerado como uno de los más grandes novelistas de la literatura inglesa.
ÍNDICE:
-El Corazón de las Tinieblas
-El Negro del «Narcissus»
-Lord Jim
-Victoria
-El Pirata
-El Agente Secreto
-Crónica Personal
-El...
79) A Set of Six
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2023
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Regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the masters of English fiction, Joseph Conrad is known for novels and works of fiction such as The Heart of Darkness, Victory, and Lord Jim. The collection A Set of Six brings together a number of Conrad's shorter pieces, featuring a swashbuckling cast of characters that will appeal to fans of the action-adventure genre. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba...
80) The Duel
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2023
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Joseph Conrad's novella "The Duel" regards the story of Lieutenant Gabriel Feraud, a fervent Bonapartist and obsessive duelist. Following a near fatal duel with the nephew of the mayor of Strasborg, Lieutenant Armand d'Hubert is sent to put Feraud under house arrest. This confrontation sets in motion a series of indecisive duels between the two over the course of the next several years. Conrad's "The Duel" is based upon the real life events of two...