LIBROS DEL AUTOR: joseph conrad

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  • The Rescue
    Joseph Conrad
    The Rescue was originally published in 1920; it concludes what is sometimes referred to as 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 Rescue is ...
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  • A Personal Record
    Joseph Conrad
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  • The Mirror of the Sea
    Joseph Conrad
    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 work of non-fiction describes Conrad’s life of twenty years and his relationship with the sea. He talks of ships and their captains, storms, ...
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  • Typhoon
    Joseph Conrad
    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 puts him at the beginning of the Modernist period of literature. Typhoon comes from Conrad’s experiences on the sea. The story centers around the crew of a steamship in a storm. The hero is the captain whose stren...
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  • Twixt Land & Sea
    Joseph Conrad
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  • Romance
    Joseph Conrad / Joseph Conrad and F. M. Hueffer / Joseph Conrad and FMHueffer
    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. Ford Madox Ford was a novelist, poet and editor. His name was originally Ford M Hueffer. He changed his name to Ford Madox Ford during his li...
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  • A Personal Record (1919)
    Joseph Conrad
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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  • Within The Tides
    Joseph Conrad
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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  • The Shadow Line - A Confession
    Joseph Conrad
    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 novella published in 1917 depicts the development of a man’s character after becoming the captain of a ship. The major themes in the book...
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  • Typhoon
    Joseph Conrad
    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 puts him at the beginning of the Modernist period of literature. Typhoon comes from Conrad’s experiences on the sea. The story centers around the crew of a steamship in a storm. The hero is the captain whose s...
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    15,57 €

  • Youth
    Joseph Conrad
    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. Past adventures of the sea bind five men together as this story unfolds. ...
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  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    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. Marlow tells his shipmates about his journey into the interior of Africa. Marlow becomes interested in the ivory trade and a man who is at the ...
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    15,69 €

  • The Shadow Line - A Confession
    Joseph Conrad
    This volume contains Joseph Conrad’s 1916 short novel, 'The Shadow-Line'. It is a semi-autobiographical tale of a young man who takes up a captaincy in the Orient. This significantly fictionalised account of Conrad’s first command as a young sea captain constitutes one of his late masterpieces, and is highly recommended for fans and collectors of his work. Joseph Conrad (1857 -...
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    22,27 €

  • The Inheritors
    Ford M. Hueffer / Ford MHueffer / Joseph Conrad
    Ideas, she said. 'Oh, as for ideas-' 'Well?' I hazarded, 'as for ideas-?' We went through the old gateway and I cast a glance over my shoulder. The noon sun was shining over the masonry, over the little saints’ effigies, over the little fretted canopies, the grime and the white streaks of bird-dropping. 'There,' I said, pointing toward it, 'doesn’t that suggest s...
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  • The Secret Agent
    Joseph Conrad
    Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law. The shop was small, and so was the house. It...
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  • The Shadow Line
    Joseph Conrad
    Only the young have such moments. I don’t mean the very young. No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection. One closes behind one the little gate of mere boyishness-and enters an enchanted garden. Its very shades g...
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    34,66 €

  • A Set of Six
    Joseph Conrad
    A revolutionary war raises many strange characters out of the obscurity which is the common lot of humble lives in an undisturbed state of society. Certain individualities grow into fame through their vices and their virtues, or simply by their actions, which may have a temporary importance; and then they become forgotten. The names of a few leaders alone survive the end o...
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    34,13 €

  • The Arrow of Gold
    Joseph Conrad
    Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of such streets is the Cannebiere, and the jest: 'If Paris had a Cannebiere it would be a little Marseilles' is the jocular expression of municipal pride. I, too, I have been under the spell. For me it has been a street leading into the unknown. The...
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  • The Arrow of Gold
    Joseph Conrad
    Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of such streets is the Cannebiere, and the jest: 'If Paris had a Cannebiere it would be a little Marseilles' is the jocular expression of municipal pride. I, too, I have been under the spell. For me it has been a street leading into the unknown. The...
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    30,17 €

  • The Inheritors
    Ford M. Hueffer / Ford MHueffer / Joseph Conrad
    Ideas, she said. 'Oh, as for ideas-' 'Well?' I hazarded, 'as for ideas-?' We went through the old gateway and I cast a glance over my shoulder. The noon sun was shining over the masonry, over the little saints’ effigies, over the little fretted canopies, the grime and the white streaks of bird-dropping. 'There,' I said, pointing toward it, 'doesn’t that suggest s...
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    30,61 €

  • The Secret Agent
    Joseph Conrad
    Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law. The shop was small, and so was the house. It...
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    30,32 €

  • A Set of Six
    Joseph Conrad
    A revolutionary war raises many strange characters out of the obscurity which is the common lot of humble lives in an undisturbed state of society. Certain individualities grow into fame through their vices and their virtues, or simply by their actions, which may have a temporary importance; and then they become forgotten. The names of a few leaders alone survive the end o...
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    30,40 €

  • The Shadow Line
    Joseph Conrad
    Only the young have such moments. I don’t mean the very young. No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection. One closes behind one the little gate of mere boyishness-and enters an enchanted garden. Its very shades g...
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    30,93 €

  • Chance - A Tale In Two Parts
    Joseph Conrad
    This book contains the novel that brought Joseph Conrad success after nearly twenty years as a struggling writer. ’Chance’ tells the story of Flora de Barrel, a girl who is abandoned by her tycoon father and who struggles and strives in the search of happiness and dignity. The first of Conrad’s works to have a happy ending, this heart-warming tale will appeal to those who like ...
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  • The Point Of Honor
    Joseph Conrad
    The Point of Honor: A Military Tale is a novel written by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1908. The story takes place in the early 19th century and follows the character of d’Hubert, a French officer who is challenged to a duel by a fellow officer, Feraud. The reason for the challenge is never fully explained, but it is suggested that it has something to do with a woman.The n...
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    29,21 €

  • The Rescue
    Joseph Conrad
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,33 €

  • Darwinism And The Problems Of Life
    Conrad Guenther / Joseph McCabe
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,79 €

  • The Secret Sharer
    Joseph Conrad
    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. The male captain of a starship is possessed by the spirit of a disembodied female passenger, and begins a dangerous journey of self-discovery. ...
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  • Victory - An Island Tale
    Joseph Conrad
    This vintage book contains Joseph Conrad’s 1915 psychological novel, 'Victory: An Island Tale'. It is the story of Axel Heyst who, after a series of unfortunate events, finds himself living on an Indonesian island with his Chinese assistant, Wang. After Heyst rescues a woman from an attempted sexual assault on a nearby island, the would-be perpetrator tries to frame him for a m...
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    32,84 €

  • The Rover
    Joseph Conrad
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    31,08 €