Lord Jim: A Tale (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

Lord Jim: A Tale (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

Lord Jim (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback / softback)

Victory: An Island Tale (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

One of the most powerful and psychologically compelling novels from Joseph Conrad, author of Lord Jim and Heart of DarknessAxel 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

Lord Jim (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--as unflinching as a hero in a book--who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from an eastern port. His life is ruined: an isolated scandal has assumed horrifying

Victory: An Island Tale (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and

Tales of Unrest (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

These five stories were collected and published as Tales of Unrest in 1898, shortly before Heart of Darkness, the first of Conrad's major novels. Ranging from the faraway and unfamiliar, where the acquisitiveness of colonial adventure is damningly exposed, to an ostensibly ordinary London

Nostromo (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback / softback)

Heart of Darkness (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback / softback)

Heart of Darkness (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback / softback)

Heart of Darkness (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback / softback)

Joseph Conrad (Hampson Robert)(Paperback)

Joseph Conrad is widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. Robert Hampson traces Conrad's life from his childhood in a Russian penal colony, through his early manhood in Marseille and his years in the British Merchant Navy, to his career as a novelist. This

Typhoon and Other Tales (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

This volume contains 'Typhoon,' 'The Secret Sharer,' 'Falk,' and 'Amy Foster.' 'Typhoon', a story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest, is a masterpiece of descriptive virtuosity and moral irony, while 'The Secret Sharer' excels in symbolic ambiguity. Both stories vividly present Conrad's

Heart of Darkness and Other Tales (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

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,

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

At the turn of the 20th century, London has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such terrorist is Verloc, a secret agent who is given the

Chance: A Tale in Two Parts (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

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 but compassion.' After her bankrupt father is

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

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

Dawn Watch - Joseph Conrad in a Global World (Jasanoff Maya)(Paperback / softback)

Heart of Darkness (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

Acclaimed illustrator Peter Kuper delivers a visually immersive and profound adaptation of Joseph Conrad's controversial classic that 'doesn't just retell the book but] destabilizes it, forcing a reconsideration' (Etelka Lechoczy, NPR). Longtime admirers of the novella will appreciate his

Nostromo - A Tale of the Seaboard (Conrad Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

Conrad's foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest novel, Nostromo - though over one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political

Černoch z lodi Narcissus - Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad ve svém románu nastoluje stale aktuální otázky rasismu, soucitu, solidarity a smyslu lidského života vůbec.Černoch z lodi Narcissus, Námořní příběh patří mezi nejpodařenější Conradovy rané práce. Současně jde o přelom v jeho tvorbě, jelikož právě touto

Hardy, Conrad and the Senses (Epstein Hugh)(Paperback)

Explores 'scenic realism' in the major novels of Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad Offers the first book-length study of connections between these two major authors bringing new approaches to bear on often-taught works Provides an understanding of impressionist styles of writing that is drawn from

Sailing Towards Poland with Joseph Conrad (Szczypien Jean M.)(Pevná vazba)

Joseph Conrad ingeniously buried images from Polish literature and culture into his works. Once recognized, these references alter the accepted meanings of the texts. In an interview that was published in Kuryer Polski (in the then Polish city of Ostrawa, now in the Czech Republic) on 26 August