Conrad's only spy novel, THE SECRET AGENT is set in the filthy and depraved city of London of the 1880s. Adolf Verloc, a bumbling police informer and the undercover agent for an unnamed European embassy, is recruited to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. Horrified and afraid, he fools his wife (who married him only so he would support her) into ...
LORD JIM, Conrad's powerful tale of an idealistic young man and the moment of weakness that determines the rest of his life, explores the nature of innocence, courage, and heroism. It includes an episode from Conrad's own life, in which he was injured by a falling spar while serving as a first mate on the "Highland Forest", and hospitalized in ...
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 depths of the human psyche to confront the evil that exists there. Marlow's encounter with the ...
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 depths of the human psyche to confront the evil that exists there. Marlow's encounter with the ...
In Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Traveling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the local people. Marlow's struggle to fathom his experience involves him in a ...
Conrad's only spy novel, THE SECRET AGENT is set in the filthy and depraved city of London of the 1880s. Adolf Verloc, a bumbling police informer and the undercover agent for an unnamed European embassy, is recruited to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. Horrified and afraid, he fools his wife (who married him only so he would support her) into ...
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 depths of the human psyche to confront the evil that exists there. Marlow's encounter with the ...
Marlow voyages into the wildness and jungle of the Belgian Congo to meet Kurtz, a company agent, and having found him, realizes that Kurtz has won supremacy over the natives through unrestrained violence. The story explores the workings of the subconscious, and addresses political imperialism.
Conrad's only spy novel, THE SECRET AGENT is set in the filthy and depraved city of London of the 1880s. Adolf Verloc, a bumbling police informer and the undercover agent for an unnamed European embassy, is recruited to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. Horrified and afraid, he fools his wife (who married him only so he would support her) into ...
A pessimistic novel about political power in a Latin American country, and the inhumanity and brutality that result when ideals and reality clash. NOSTROMO is considered by many to be Conrad's greatest novel. It was one he hesitated to write, he says in the introduction, "as if warned by the instinct of self-preservation from venturing on a ...
In this novel about revolutionaries, set in Russia and Switzerland, Conrad presents a psychological portrait of Russia in 1911 through a complex dance of plots and counterplots, loyalty and betrayal.
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 depths of the human psyche to confront the evil that exists there. Marlow's encounter with the ...
This convenient study guide's clear explanations of grammar, a pronunciation guide, verb charts, quick drills with answers, and hundreds of completed exercises make learning or brushing up on Italian easy. This take-along tutor helps students cut learning time, hone speaking and writing skills for travel, and achieve their personal best on exams ...
In Conrad's 1897 novel, THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS, the morale of a ship's crew is undermined by sympathy for a dying black sailor: a paradoxical situation that Conrad returned to often in his novels, which are frequently about the danger as well as the absolute necessity of human relationships.
A great novelist of the sea, a poet of the tropics, a critic of empire and analyst of globalization, a harbinger of the modern spy novel, an unparalleled observer of the moments in which people are stripped of their illusions - Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This revised edition of "The Portable Conrad" ...
Conrad's second novel (1896) is set at an isolated trading post in the town of Macassar, on an island in Indonesia, where a fairly lowly Dutch clerk named Peter Willems finds himself lost and bewildered in an alien world. As he tries to find a way to survive there, his own intrigues prove to be his undoing, and in the end he essentially loses his ...
A pessimistic novel about political power in a Latin American country, and the inhumanity and brutality that result when ideals and reality clash. NOSTROMO is considered by many to be Conrad's greatest novel. It was one he hesitated to write, he says in the introduction, "as if warned by the instinct of self-preservation from venturing on a ...
CHANCE was one of Conrad's few best-selling novels, and one of the few he designed to appeal specifically to women. Essentially a romance, it tells the story of a young woman who is forced to choose between loyalty to her disreputable father and devotion to her sea-captain husband. Derided by critics when it was published in 1913, CHANCE is now ...
This affordable text offers a traditional political history approach in one convenient volume. A classic survey of Western civilization, this text has remained popular for its balanced coverage and its consistent efforts to explain why history exhibits the patterns it has.
"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 & ...
"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 & ...
Conrad sets his novel VICTORY, which he wrote in 1915, in the Malay Archipelago--the setting for LORD JIM (1900). In VICTORY, a baron and former exile named Axel Heyst becomes involved with a woman named Lena, a traveling violinist; however, one of Lena's former lovers finds the couple on their isolated island, and the story culminates in a deadly ...
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