LIBROS DEL AUTOR: joseph conrad

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  • Heart of Darkness (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
    Joseph Conrad
    HEART OF DARKNESS (1899) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story’s narrator Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, London, England. This setting provides the frame for Marlow’s story of his obsession with the ivory trade...
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  • Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
    Joseph Conrad
    'Heart of Darkness' and 'Lord Jim', narrated by the same character Marlow, feature prominently on lists of classics. They explore the depths of the human condition away from the society’s conventions. ...
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  • Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
    Joseph Conrad
    'Heart of Darkness' and 'Lord Jim', narrated by the same character Marlow, feature prominently on lists of classics. They explore the depths of the human condition away from the society’s conventions. ...
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    19,47 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
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  • Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer
    Joseph Conrad
    Two books in one. Loosely based on an experience in Joseph Conrad’s life, Heart of Darkness tells the story of one man’s journey into darkest Africa--and the darkness of the human heart. Both thoughtful and compelling, Heart of Darkness takes measure of 'the thin line between civilization and barbarity.' The Secret Sharer, likewise based on an actual accident at sea, is an exci...
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  • The Secret Sharer
    Joseph Conrad
    The Secret Sharer, actual accident at sea, is an exciting adventure tale that reveals truths about human nature on several levels. Albert J. Guerard of Stanford University wrote that these two stories are 'among the finest of Conrad’s short novels, and among the half-dozen greatest short novels in the English language.' And Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad, 'His books are full of...
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  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Loosely based on an experience in Joseph Conrad’s life, this short novel tells the story of one man’s journey into darkest Africa--and the darkness of the human heart. Both thoughtful and compelling, The Heart of Darkness takes measure of 'the thin line between civilization and barbarity.' Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad, 'His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a...
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    11,16 €

  • Under Western Eyes
    Joseph Conrad
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  • The Secret Agent
    Joseph Conrad
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  • Lord Jim
    Joseph Conrad
    „Czytamy w oryginale' to seria wydawnicza zawierająca adaptacje największych dzieł literatury anglojęzycznej. Dwujęzyczna adaptacja powieści to atrakcyjna pomoc dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Adaptacja została przygotowana z myślą o czytelnikach średnio zaawansowanych, jednak dzięki dwujęzyczn...
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  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Dark allegory describes the narrator’s journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. A masterly blend of adventure, character development, and psychological penetration. Critics consider this to be Conrad’s finest, most enigmatic story.The novella has been adapted for th...
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    7,64 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
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  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    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 - - ~~~~~~The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come ...
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  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    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 - - ~~~~~~The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come ...
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    29,80 €

  • Nostromo
    Joseph Conrad
    Conrad set his novel in the mining town of Sulaco, an imaginary port in the occidental region of the imaginary country of Costaguana. Costaguana has a long history of tyranny, revolution and warfare, but has recently experienced a period of stability under the dictator Ribiera.The book has more fully developed characters than any other of his novels, but two characters dominate...
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    18,08 €

  • Lord Jim
    Joseph Conrad
    Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to term...
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    14,56 €

  • The Secret Agent
    Joseph Conrad
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  • Nostromo
    Joseph Conrad
    About the Book: Nostromo Nostromo is Joseph Conrad’s masterly tale of corruptionand politics. The nation of Costaguana is beset by dictatorship, corruptionand misrule. When Charles Gould’s silver mine is threatened bysquabbling warlords and ruthless revolutionaries, he calls on thehelp of the seemingly-incorruptible Nostromo to protect hisinterests. But will Nostromo be able to...
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    24,13 €

  • Lord Jim
    Joseph Conrad
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    183,84 €

  • Typhoon and the Shadow-Line
    Joseph Conrad
    Typhoon: A Siamese-flagged steamer sails into a typhoon the worst calamity at sea. Captain Macwhirr s controversial decision to steer through it rather than turn around makes for an epic clash against the forces of Nature. With the ship s crew fearing the worst as it enters the tempest, the captain s steely resolve is put to acid test. The Shadow-Line: This semi-autobiographica...
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    10,73 €

  • Joseph Conrad Collection Including (Unabridged)
    Joseph Conrad
    Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is considered to be one of the great novelists in English. His novels often have a nautical setting and his characters suffer trials in the midst of an indifferent universe. His masterful prose is second to none and his Polish background brings a romantic or tragic style that was previously unknown in English novels. The 'Heart of Darkness' is a true ...
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    67,01 €

  • The Inheritors
    Ford Madox Hueffer / Joseph Conrad
    This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1901 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer in Merton, Surrey, England on 17th December 1873. The creative arts ran in his family - Hueffer’s grandfather, Ford Madox Brown, was a well-known painter, and his German émigré father was music critic of Th...
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    24,39 €

  • Romance
    Ford Madox Hueffer / Joseph Conrad
    This early work Romance by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1903 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer in Merton, Surrey, England on 17th December 1873. The creative arts ran in his family - Hueffer's grandfather, Ford Madox Brown, was a well-known painter, and his German émigré father was music ...
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    36,74 €

  • The Nigger of the Narcissus
    Joseph Conrad
    The Nigger of the Narcissus is a tale of a ship braving high seas and squalls to reach her destination, and of the men, lashed by emotion and conscience, desperately trying to cope with an uncertain fate. Melancholic in mood, contradictory in imagery, The Nigger of the Narcissus is more than just a seafaring tale, it shows that the storm within can be more tumultuous than the t...
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    8,67 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Published in 1902, Heart of Darkness is a well-known novella by Polish writer Joseph Conrad. Before its publication, it was featured in a three-part series in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899. The story features Charles Marlow, who accepts an assignment from a Belgian trading company to captain a riverboat in Africa transporting ivory. The book explores three levels of darkness - w...
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    17,87 €

  • The Nature of a Crime
    Ford Madox Ford / Joseph Conrad
    The Nature of a Crime, the third of three collaborations between Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford, was originally written when the two men were living in Winchelsea, Sussex, in 1906, but not published in book form until 1924, shortly after Conrad’s death.The story takes the form of a series of love letters written by the unnamed narrator to a married woman, who is visiting Rom...
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  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood’s Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon.The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign a...
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    17,76 €

  • Tales of Unrest
    Joseph Conrad
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    191,59 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    This is a fine edition of Jospeh Conrad’s most acclaimed novel, printed on cream, acid-free paper. As the narrator Marlow journeys ever deeper into the Congo’s ’heart of darkness’, so he also penetrates deeper into the folly of western corruption and absurdity that characterises both the collision of European and African cultures, and the conflicts in his own inner nature. The ...
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    13,37 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    This is a fine edition of Jospeh Conrad’s most acclaimed novel, printed on cream, acid-free paper. As the narrator Marlow journeys ever deeper into the Congo’s ’heart of darkness’, so he also penetrates deeper into the folly of western corruption and absurdity that characterises both the collision of European and African cultures, and the conflicts in his own inner nature. The ...
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    40,47 €