LIBROS DEL AUTOR: joseph conrad

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  • Nostromo
    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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  • Some Reminiscences
    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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  • Tales Of Unrest
    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 Arrow Of Gold
    Joseph Conrad
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  • Youth
    Joseph Conrad
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    12,77 €

  • Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, Fiction, Literary
    Joseph Conrad
    NOSTROMO is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which belong to the period following upon the publication of the TYPHOON volume of short stories. I don't mean to say that I became then conscious of any impending change in my mentality and in my attitude towards the tasks of my writing life. And perhaps there was never any change, except in that mysterious, ext...
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  • The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, Fiction
    Joseph Conrad
    Speaking of this novel, Conrad wrote, 'The origin of The Secret Agent: subject, treatment, artistic purpose and every other motive that may induce an author to take up his pen, can, I believe, be traced to a period of mental and emotional reaction. The actual facts are that I began this book impulsively and wrote it continuously. When in due course it was bound and delivered to...
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    15,80 €

  • Notes on Life and Letters
    Joseph Conrad
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  • Falk, Amy Foster and Tomorrow by Joseph Conrad, Fiction, Classics
    Joseph Conrad
    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 E...
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    11,96 €

  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Fiction, Classics, Literary
    Joseph Conrad
    A novella about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, as told 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 trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between Lon...
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  • The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad, Fiction
    Joseph Conrad
    On my first voyage as chief mate with good Captain MacW-------- I remember that I felt quite flattered and went blithely about my duties, myself a commander for all practical purposes. Still, whatever the greatness of my illusion, the fact remained that the real commander was there, backing up my self-confidence. . . . Until I was unlucky enough to catch my captain in the act o...
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    15,84 €

  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Fiction, Classics, Literary
    Joseph Conrad
    A novella about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, as told 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 trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between Lon...
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    27,30 €

  • The Nigger of the ’Narcissus’ by Joseph Conrad, Fiction, Classics
    Joseph Conrad
    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 E...
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    28,81 €

  • Typhoon by Joseph Conrad, Fiction, Classics
    Joseph Conrad
    The novella classically evokes the seafaring life at the turn of the century. 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 un...
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    25,70 €

  • Tales of Land and Sea
    Joseph Conrad
    CONTENTSYouthHeart of DarknessThe Nigger of the NacissusIl CondeGaspar RuizThe BruteTyphoonThe Secret SharerFreya of the Seven IslesThe DuelThe End of the TetherThe Shadow-Line ...
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    34,03 €

  • Ready to Fly
    Peter Conrad Joseph
    You've seen and admired them. Poised, polished, and well groomed, they stride confidently through the world's airports in crisp, tailored uniforms. In flight, they mysteriously emerge from hidden corners of the aircraft to conduct a gracious and efficient cabin service. They seem to be able to handle any problem from an oversized carry-on bag to an undercooked steak. Who ar...
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    15,00 €

  • Lord Jim & Nostromo
    JConrad / Joseph Conrad
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    25,14 €

  • Almayer’s Folly
    Joseph Conrad
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    180,58 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Set in an atmosphere of enigma and menace, Heart of Darkness centres around Marlow, a contemplative sailor and on his journey up the Congo river on behalf of a Belgian trading company. His very first task is to bring back an agent of the company who has disappeared in strange circumstances, that also leads to a meet up with Kurtz, an ivory trader who is a mysterious figure with...
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    8,92 €

  • Lord Jim
    Joseph Conrad
    From the author of Heart of Darkness : A condemned British seaman on the run from a grievous mistake in his past may find redemption in the Far East.A young British seaman, Jim lands a major opportunity when he becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship transporting Muslim pilgrims to Mecca for the hajj. But when disaster strikes at sea, Jim and the rest of the crew abandon the sh...
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    17,00 €

  • The Rescue
    Joseph Conrad
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    21,08 €

  • The Shadow Line
    Joseph Conrad
    The Shadow Line is a classic Joseph Conrad adventure novel about a young sailor quits a ship and ends up, surprisingly, with command of another ship. The story makes interesting commentary on how chance can dictate human life. "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 privi- lege of earl...
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    13,23 €

  • 'Twixt Land and Sea Tales'
    Joseph Conrad
    'Twixt Land and Sea Tales is a classic collection of sea stories by Joseph Conrad. . Joseph Conrad has come into his own. The three stories contained in this volume take rank with the most mature and romantic of his work. The charming love and adventure of the life which he depicts in remote places confirm the growing belief that he is among the greatest of living creative ...
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    25,28 €

  • The Mirror of the Sea
    Joseph Conrad
    Author Joseph Conrad described, in his essay collection The Mirror of the Sea (1906) and his novel The Arrow of Gold (1919), having, during his time in Marseilles, France, smuggling arms to Spain for the Carlist supporters of Carlos de Borbón y de Austria-Este, pretender to the Spanish throne. Although it likely he was involved in something other than weapons.  ...
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    24,39 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Although Polish, Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest English writers, and Heart of Darkness is considered his best.  As a reader we are brought to face our psychological selves to answer, ‘Who is the true savage?’ ...
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    16,50 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called heart of Africa. Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kur...
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    15,03 €

  • Almayer’s Folly
    Joseph Conrad
    The family story, Almayer's Folly, Conrad's first novel, is the powerful adventure story of Almayer, a Dutch trader working in Borneo, his wife, his daughter, and Dain, the daughter's native lover that features the sad parting of father and daughter. Almayer’s Folly is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. He is...
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    25,46 €