Joseph Conrad Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Shifting of the Fire (With: Ford Madox Ford) (1892)
  2. Almayer’s Folly (1895)
  3. An Outcast of the Islands (1896)
  4. The Nig*ger of Narcissus (1897)
  5. Lord Jim (1900)
  6. The Inheritors (1901)
  7. Heart of Darkness (1902)
  8. Romance (1903)
  9. Nostromo (1904)
  10. The Secret Agent (1907)
  11. The Point of Honor / The Duel (1908)
  12. A Set Of Six (1908)
  13. The Secret Sharer (1909)
  14. Under Western Eyes (1911)
  15. ‘Twixt Land and Sea (1912)
  16. A Personal Record (1912)
  17. Chance (1913)
  18. Victory (1915)
  19. Within the Tides (1915)
  20. The Shadow-Line (1916)
  21. The Arrow of Gold (1919)
  22. The Rescue (1920)
  23. The Black Mate (1922)
  24. The Nature of a Crime (1923)
  25. The Rover (1923)
  26. The Tremolino (2020)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Tales Of Unrest (1898)
  2. Typhoon (1902)
  3. Youth, A Narrative (1902)
  4. Laughing Anne & One day more: two plays (1924)
  5. Tales Of Hearsay (1925)
  6. Tales of Land and Sea (1953)
  7. The Portable Conrad (1961)
  8. Conrad’s Manifesto (1966)
  9. Congo Diary and Other Uncollected Pieces (1978)
  10. Youth / Heart of Darkness / The End of the Tether (2010)

Plays In Publication Order

  1. One Day More (2007)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Mirror Of The Sea & A Personal Record (1912)
  2. Some Reminiscences (1912)
  3. Last Essays (2010)
  4. Letters (2020)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. 50 Great Short Stories (1952)

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Joseph Conrad Books Overview

The Shifting of the Fire (With: Ford Madox Ford)

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1892 edition by T. Fisher Unwin, London.

Almayer’s Folly

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An Outcast of the Islands

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The Nig*ger of Narcissus

This ebook is complete with linked Table of Content making navigation quicker and easier. The Nig*ger of the ‘Narcissus’: A Tale of the Sea is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Because of its quality compared to earlier works, some have described it as marking the start of Conrad’s major middle period; others have placed it as the best work of his early first period. John G. Peters said of it in 2006: ‘The unfortunately titled The Nig*ger of the ‘Narcissus’ titled Children of the Sea in the first American edition is Conrad’s best work of his early period. In fact, were it not for the book’s title, it undoubtedly would be read more often than it is currently. At one time, it was one of Conrad’s most frequently read books. In part because of its brevity, in part because of its adventure qualities, and in part because of its literary qualities, the novel used to attract a good deal of attention.’The author’s preface to the novel, regarded as a manifesto of literary impressionism, is considered one of Conrad’s significant pieces of non fiction writing. The titular character, James Wait, is a West Indian black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus sailing from Bombay to London. Wait falls ill with tuberculosis during the voyage, and his plight arouses the humanitarian sympathies of many of the crew, five of whom rescue him from his deck cabin during a storm, placing their own lives and the ship at risk. Captain Alistoun and the old sailor Singleton, on the other hand, remain concerned primarily with their duties as sailors and are indifferent to Wait’s condition. The novel is seen as an allegory about isolation and solidarity, the ship’s company serving as a microcosm of a social group. Conrad appears to suggest that humanitarian sympathies are, at their core, feelings of self interest and that a heightened sensitivity to suffering can be detrimental to managing a society. In the United States, the novel was first published with the title The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle, at the insistence by the publisher, Dodd, Mead and Company, that no one would buy or read a book with the word Nig*ger in its title. In 2009, in an effort ‘to remove this offense to modern sensibilities’, WordBridge Publishing reissued the book under the title The N word of the Narcissus. Conrad, an emotional man subject to fits of depression, self doubt, and pessimism, disciplined his romantic temperament with an unsparing moral judgment. As an artist, he famously aspired, in his preface to The Nig*ger of the ‘Narcissus’ 1897, ‘by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel…
before all, to make you see. That and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm all you demand and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.’Writing in what to the visual arts was the age of Impressionism, Conrad showed himself in many of his works a prose poet of the highest order: thus, for instance, in the evocative Patna and courtroom scenes of Lord Jim; in the ‘melancholy mad elephant’ and gunboat scenes of Heart of Darkness; in the doubled protagonists of The Secret Sharer; and in the verbal and conceptual resonances of Nostromo and The Nig*ger of the ‘Narcissus’. From Wikipedia

Lord Jim

Lord Jim, 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. With Lord Jim, first published in 1900, Joseph Conrad transformed a tale of seafaring adventure into a subtle study of the meaning of honor and courage, loyalty and betrayal. When Jim, an idealistic merchant seaman and ship’s officer, abandons the supposedly sinking Patna and its passengers, he dashes his youthful dreams of glory in a single stroke. Condemned in court for his impetuous act of cowardice, Jim relegates himself to a life roaming the Far East. Unforgettably told by Marlow, who also narrates Conrad s Heart of Darkness, the story of Lord Jim plumbs the mysteries of a man renounced by society but driven by a desire for redemption.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, and has written the introduction and notes for the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad.

The Inheritors

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Heart of Darkness

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.

Romance

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Nostromo

Nostromo, 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:All 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 greatest novels of the twentieth century, Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is an immensely exciting tale of love, revolution, and politics set in the mythical South American country of Costaguana during the 1890s. Ten years after his father is murdered by a brutal dictator, Englishman Charles Gould arrives in Costaguana to reopen the family silver mine. But instead of ushering in a shining era of prosperity and progress, the return of the silver engenders a new cycle of violence as Costaguana erupts in civil war, initiated by rival warlords determined to seize the mine and its riches. In desperation, Gould turns to the only man who can save the mine s treasure Nostromo, the incorruptible head of the local dockworkers, who protects the silver from rebel forces by taking it out to sea. But disaster strikes, burdening Nostromo with a terrible secret that forever alters the fate of everyone involved with the mine.A stunning monument to futility, Nostromo reveals how honor, idealism, and loyalty are inadequate defenses against the inexorable assault of corruption and evil. Brent Edwards is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Rutgers University. He is author of The Practice of Diaspora Harvard University Press, 2003 and co editor of Uptown Conservation: The New Jazz Studies Columbia University Press, 2004.

The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent, 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: All 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. Set in early twentieth century London and inspired by an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, The Secret Agent is a complex exploration of motivation and morality. The title character, Adolf Verloc, is obviously no James Bond. In fact, he and his circle of misfit saboteurs are not spies but terrorists, driven less by political ideals than by their unruly emotions and irrational hatreds. Verloc has settled into an apparent marriage of convenience. Family life gives him a respectable cover, while his wife hopes to get help in handling her halfwit brother, Stevie. Instead Verloc involves Stevie in one of his explosive schemes, an act that leads to violence, murder, and revenge. Darkly comic, the novel is also obliquely autobiographical: Joseph Conrad’s parents were involved in the radical politics of their time, and their early deaths left him profoundly distrustful of any sort of political action. Steven Marcus is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, and a specialist in nineteenth century literature and culture. He is the author of more than 200 publications.

The Point of Honor / The Duel

Also published as The Duel, Joseph Conrad’s 1908 short novel The Point of Honor was adapted to film as the elegant The Duellists, Ridley Scott’s 1977 film debut. Fans of the film will find Joseph Conrad’s book a bit softer, but no less entertaining, than the brutal, uncompromising Napoleonic-era vendetta of animalistic Feraud against gentle, sensitive D’Hubert. A ‘point of honor’ is defined as a ‘concern that seriously affects the perception of your honor,’ yet it is hard to discern which point of honor began the twenty-year series of duels between the two officers. Reportedly based on the repeated battles of a real pair of Napoleon’s staff, Joseph Conrad’s masterful plotting and deep human insight and empathy are at their best in this short, satisfying tale of revenge, survival, and, at the end, pity. Master translator Constance Garnett considered The Point of Honor to be a ‘perfect whole’ and ‘worthy of Turgenev.’

A Set Of Six

JOSEPH CONRAD 1857 1924 was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, he went to sea at the age of seventeen and eventually joined the crew of an English vessel, becoming a British citizen in the process. He retired from the sea in 1894 and took up the pen, writing all his works in English, a language he had only learned as an adult. Despite this, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise. His outsider’s eye gave him special insights into the moral dangers of the great age of European empires. This collection of stories, _A Set Of Six,_ was one assembled by the author during his lifetime. As he wrote in 1920, in his note for the book, ‘The six stories in this volume are the result of some three or four years of occasional work. The dates of their writing are far apart, their origins are various. None of them are connected directly with personal experiences. In all of them the facts are inherently true, by which I mean that they are not only possible but that they have actually happened.’

The Secret Sharer

There are many editions of The Secret Sharer. This educational edition was created for self improvement or in preparation for advanced examinations. The bottom of each page is annotated with a mini thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text, including synonyms and antonyms. Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings. A running thesaurus at the bottom of each page is useful to students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT , SAT , AP Advanced Placement , GRE , LSAT , GMAT or similar examinations. This edition exposes the reader to a maximum number of difficult, and often encountered words in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. PSAT is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE , AP and Advanced Placement are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.

Under Western Eyes

Under Western Eyes is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia and Geneva, Switzerland and is viewed as Conrad’s response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment; Conrad being reputed to have detested Dostoevsky. It is also, some say, Conrad’s response to his own early life; his father was a famous revolutionary imprisoned by the Russians, but, instead of following in his father’s footsteps, at the age of sixteen Conrad left his native land forever. Indeed, while writing Under Western Eyes, Conrad suffered a weeks long breakdown during which he conversed with the novel’s characters in Polish. This novel is considered to be one of Conrad’s major works and is close in subject matter to The Secret Agent. It is full of cynicism and conflict about the historical failures of revolutionary movements and ideals. Conrad remarks in this book, as well as others, on the irrationality of life, the opacity of character, and the unfairness with which suffering is inflicted upon the innocent and poor and the careless disregard for fellow life with whom we share existence. wikipedia. org

‘Twixt Land and Sea

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A Personal Record

Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James 1901 1989 was a brilliant polymath who has been described by Edward Said as ‘a centrally important 20th century figure.’ Through such landmark works as The Black Jacobins, Beyond a Boundary, and American Civilization, James’s thought continues to influence and inspire scholars in a wide variety of fields. ‘There is little doubt,’ wrote novelist Caryl Phillips in The New Republic, ‘that James will come to be regarded as the outstanding Caribbean mind of the twentieth century.’In his seminal work of literary and cultural criticism, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways, James anticipated many of the concerns and ideas that have shaped the contemporary fields of American and Postcolonial Studies, yet this widely influential book has been unavailable in its complete form since its original publication in 1953. A provocative study of Moby Dick in which James challenged the prevailing Americanist interpretation that opposed a ‘totalitarian’ Ahab and a ‘democratic, American’ Ishmael, he offered instead a vision of a factory like Pequod whose ‘captain of industry’ leads the ‘mariners, renegades and castaways’ of its crew to their doom. In addition to demonstrating how such an interpretation supported the emerging US national security state, James also related the narrative of Moby Dick, and its resonance in American literary and political culture, to his own persecuted position at the height or the depth of the Truman/McCarthy era. It is precisely this personal, deeply original material that was excised from the only subsequent edition. With a new introduction by Donald E. Pease that places the work in its critical and cultural context, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways is once again available in its complete form.

Chance

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Victory

The last word of this novel was written on 29 May 1914. And that last word was the single word of the title. Those were the times of peace. Now that the moment of publication approaches I have been considering the discretion of altering the title page. The word ‘Victory‘ the shining and tragic goal of noble effort, appeared too great, too august, to stand at the head of a mere novel. There was also the possibility of falling under the suspicion of commercial astuteness deceiving the public into the belief that the book had something to do with war. Of that, however, I was not afraid very much. What influenced my decision most were the obscure promptings of that pagan residuum of awe and wonder which lurks still at the bottom of our old humanity. ‘Victory‘ was the last word I had written in peace time. It was the last literary thought which had occurred to me before the doors of the Temple of Janus flying open with a crash shook the minds, the hearts, the consciences of men all over the world. Such coincidence could not be treated lightly. And I made up my mind to let the word stand, in the same hopeful spirit in which some simple citizen of Old Rome would have ‘accepted the Omen.’ Joseph Conrad

Within the Tides

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG In the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and part owner of the important newspaper. The other’s name was Renouard. That he was exercised in his mind about something was evident on his fine bronzed face. He was a lean, lounging, active man. The journalist continued the conversation. ‘And so you were dining yesterday at old Dunster’s.’ He used the word old not in the endearing sense in which it is sometimes applied to intimates, but as a matter of sober fact. The Dunster in question was old. He had been an eminent colonial statesman, but had now retired from active politics after a tour in Europe and a lengthy stay in England, during which he had had a very good press indeed. The colony was proud of him.

The Shadow-Line

The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad’s later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the shadow line between youth and maturity. This brief but intense story is a dramatically fictionalized account of Conrad s first command as a young sea captain trapped aboard a becalmed, fever wracked, and seemingly haunted ship. With no wind in sight and his crew disabled by malaria, the narrator discovers that the medicine necessary to save the sick men is missing and its absence has been deliberately concealed. Meanwhile, his increasingly frightened first mate is convinced that the malignant ghost of the previous captain has cursed them. Suspenseful, atmospheric, and deceptively simple, Conrad s tale of the sea reflects the complex themes of his most famous novels, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.

The Arrow of Gold

‘The magical quality of the narrative, the fastidious and unerring distinction of the style, are Conrad at his best.’ Spectator‘Do a Rita is only the central figure, not the sole notable figure, in a wonderful group, whose collective impression is that of some splendid, barbaric, yet most delicately and finely wrought example of the jeweler’s art.’ New York TimesReflecting 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. Boasting a cast of extraordinary and eccentric personalities, including the hero*ine Do a Rita, this is a story of adventure on the high seas, of the revelation of love, of the crushing weight of loss, and of freedom found in the recklessness of unadorned sincerity. 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 intense attraction to the sea to persuade him to run perilous enterprises for their cause, ventures he later learns have been financed by the beautiful mistress and heiress of a rich man’s fortune. When he falls in love with her, he finds himself moved absolutely by this discovery, despite the fact that she is unable to return his love fully. In the end he is left alone with his first love, the sea, his brief time with the mysterious Do a Rita marking a tumultuous awakening to a life of passion, the desolation that hides in its shadow, and the possibility of rebirth in its wake. Although not as well known as his earlier novels Lord Jim and Nostromo, The Arrow of Gold was critically acclaimed when it first appeared in 1919 and is still considered to be among the best of Conrad’s later works.

The Rescue

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The Nature of a Crime

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The Rover

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Tales Of Unrest

JOSEPH CONRAD 1857 1924 was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, he went to sea at the age of seventeen and eventually joined the crew of an English vessel, becoming a British citizen in the process. He retired from the sea in 1894 and took up the pen, writing all his works in English, a language he had only learned as an adult. Despite this, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise. His outsider’s eye gave him special insights into the moral dangers of the great age of European empires. In his prefactory note to this volume, Conrad wrote, ‘Of the five stories in this volume, ‘The Lagoon,’ the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions. Conceived in the same mood which produced ‘Almayer’s Folly’ and ‘An Outcast of the Islands,’ it is told in the same breath with what was left of it, that is, after the end of ‘An Outcast’, seen with the same vision, rendered in the same method if such a thing as method did exist then in my conscious relation to this new adventure of writing for print. I doubt it very much. One does one’s work first and theorizes about it afterwards. It is a very amusing and egotistical occupation of no use whatever to anyone and just as likely as not to lead to false conclusions.’

Typhoon

Captain MacWhirr, of the steamer _Nan Shan,_ had a physiognomy that, in the order of material appearances, was the exact counterpart of his mind: it presented no marked characteristics of firmness or stupidity; it had no pronounced characteristics whatever; it was simply ordinary, irresponsive, and unruffled. The only thing his aspect might have been said to suggest, at times, was bashfulness; because he would sit, in business offices ashore, sunburned and smiling faintly, with downcast eyes. Having just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day, and no more, he was tranquilly sure of himself; and from the very same cause he was not in the least conceited. It is your imaginative superior who is touchy, overbearing, and difficult to please; but every ship Captain MacWhirr commanded was the floating abode of harmony and peace. It was, in truth, as impossible for him to take a flight of fancy as it would be for a watchmaker to put together a chronometer with nothing except a two pound hammer and a whip saw in the way of tools. Yet the uninteresting lives of men so entirely given to the actuality of the bare existence have their mysterious side. It was impossible in Captain MacWhirr’s case, for instance, to understand what under heaven could have induced that perfectly satisfactory son of a petty grocer in Belfast to run away to sea…
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Youth, A Narrative

YOUTH. This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak-the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amuseme*nt, of travel, or of bread-winning. We were sitting round a mahogany table that reflected the bottle, the claret-glas*ses, and our faces as we leaned on our elbows. There was a director of companies, an accountant, a lawyer, Marlow, and myself. The director had been a Conway boy, the accountant had served four years at sea, the lawyer -a fine crusted Tory, High Churchman, the best of old fellows, the soul of honour-had been chief officer in the P. & O. service in the good old days when mail-boats were square-rigged at least on two masts, and used to come down the China Sea before a fair monsoon with stun’-sails set alow and aloft. We all began life in the merchant service. Between the five of us there was the strong bond of the sea, and also the fellowship of th

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Tales Of Hearsay

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.

Tales of Land and Sea

The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad offers a wide ranging introduction to the fiction of Joseph Conrad, one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. Leading Conrad scholars give an account of Conrad’s life, provide detailed readings of his major works, and discuss his narrative techniques, his complex relationship with cultural developments of his time, his influence on later writers and artists, and recent developments in Conrad criticism. The volume, which is aimed at students and the general reader, also contains a chronology and guide to further reading.

The Portable Conrad

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 features the best known and most enduring of Conrad’s works, including The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, and The Nig*ger of the Narcissus, as well as shorter tales like Amy Forster and The Secret Sharer, a selection of letters, and his observations on the sinking of the Titanic.

Youth / Heart of Darkness / The End of the Tether

Conrad’s aim was ‘by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel…
before all, to make you see’. ‘Heart of Darkness’, his exploration of European colonialism in Africa and of elusive human values, embodies more profoundly than almost any other modern fiction the difficulty of ‘seeing’, its relativity and shifting compromise. Portraying a young man’s first sea voyage to the ‘East in Youth’, an unenlightened maturity in ‘Heart of Darkness’, and the blind old age of Captain Whalley in ‘The End of the Tether’, the stories in this volume are united in their theme the ‘Ages of Man’ and in their scepticism. Conrad’s vision has influenced twentieth century writers and artists from T. S. Eliot to Jorge Luis Borges and Werner Herzog, and continues to draw critical fire. In his stimulating introduction, John Lyon discusses the links between these three stories, the critiques of Chinua Achebe and Edward Said, and the ebb and flow of Conrad’s magnificent narrative art.

One Day More

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 Mirror Of The Sea & A Personal Record

This book features introductions by Dr. Keith Carabine, Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society U.K.. ‘I have tried with an almost filial regard to render the vibration of life in the great world of waters, in the hearts of simple men who have traversed its solitudes, and also that something sentient which seems to dwell in ships the creatures of their hands and the objects of their care’ Joseph Conrad on ‘The Mirror of the Sea’. ‘An imaginative and exact rendering of authentic memories may serve worthily that spirit of piety towards all things human which sanctions the conceptions of a writer of tales, and the emotions of a man reviewing his own experience’ ‘A Personal Record’. These two autobiographical works differ greatly in scope and form. In ‘The Mirror’ 1906 Conrad draws upon his career as a mariner in France and then in the British Merchant Service to consider and dramatise the relationships between men, ships and the sea in an era when his beloved sailing ships gave way to the age of steam. ‘A Personal Record’ 1912 pivots on two crucial turning points in Conrad’s amazing life: his decision as a sixteen year old to leave Poland for the ‘call’ of the sea, and his decision fifteen years later to begin his first novel, ‘Almayer’s Folly’, in English, his third language. ‘The Mirror’ has been called ‘the epic of the sailing ship’ and ‘The Bible of the Sea’. ‘A Personal Record’ is a humorous, moving account of a young man’s struggle, against all the odds, to create ‘a coherent, justifiable personality both in its origin and its action’.

Some Reminiscences

It was in 1868, when nine years old or thereabouts, that while looking at a map of Africa of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representing the unsolved mystery of that continent, I said to myself, with absolute assurance and an amazing audacity which are no longer in my character now: ‘When I grow up I shall go there.’ from A Personal Record J sef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine, saw Europe as a child, and saw the world from the sea as a young man. An adventurer and a dreamer from the start, the restlessness of his youth would inform the keen insight he brought to the classic novels he would write, after settling in England, under the name JOSEPH CONRAD 1857 1924, including Lord Jim 1900 and Heart of Darkness 1902. Conrad fills this, his 1912 autobiography, with tales of his Russian childhood and his ocean voyages as a sailor on French and British merchant ships, all told with a deeply reflective spirit and a narrative imagination that elevates the genre of the life story to the level of grand literature. Ringing with the author’s own appreciation of the unusual course of his life, this is powerful and true background material for a new enjoyment of his enduring works of fiction.

Last Essays

Bringing together work composed from 1890 to 1924, the nineteen pieces collected in the posthumously published Last Essays 1926 serve as a primer to Conrad’s wide interests and to the varieties of his style. This edition, supported by an extensive textual apparatus, brings together various prose pieces, including reminiscences, reviews, essays on the sea and politics, as well as several miscellaneous items, including his ‘Congo Diary’ and the other notebook he kept in Africa in 1890. The introduction situates these writings in Conrad’s career, offers new perspectives on Conrad in the marketplace and as a writer of occasional prose and traces the contemporary reception of the volume. The notes explain literary and historical references, identify real-life places and indicate Conrad’s main sources. Early drafts and notes for several essays are published here for the first time, making this authoritative critical edition a major contribution to Conrad studies.

50 Great Short Stories

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world s fiction.

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