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  • Heart Of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Delve into the haunting depths of the human soul with Joseph Conrad’s timeless masterpiece, 'Heart of Darkness.' Set against the backdrop of the African Congo during the era of colonialism, this gripping novella takes readers on a harrowing journey of self-discovery and moral reckoning. Follow the enigmatic Charles Marlow as he embarks on a treacherous expedition up the myster...
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  • Notes on My Books
    Joseph Conrad
    Notes on My Books, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scann...
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    15,25 €

  • Notes on Life & Letters
    Joseph Conrad
    Notes on Life & Letters, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from...
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    18,10 €

  • Typhon
    Joseph Conrad
    Un capitaine, incontestablement borné mais bon marin. Un second officier qui accomplit son office mais pense et questionne les manques de son capitaine. Un officier mécanicien solide et à son affaire. Et une tempête, le typhon, qui menace... L’éviter comme dans les livres de navigation? Bien complexe, sans compter le prix de se dérouter, pense le capitaine: il fonce tout droit ...
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  • La Flèche d’or
    Joseph Conrad
    1874. À Marseille, Monsieur George - ou le jeune Joseph Conrad - a tout juste 17 ans. Il admire Mills qui lui fait rencontrer doña Rita, une égérie du mouvement carliste espagnol. Profondément séduisante, elle fait l’admiration de tous les hommes. Entraîné par Mills mais surtout par goût de l’aventure et de la mer, il entreprend, avec son ami Dominique, de livrer en contreban...
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    15,80 €

  • Nostromo
    Joseph Conrad
    Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from sc...
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  • One Day More
    Joseph Conrad
    One Day More, A Play in One Act, By Joseph Conrad, Classic One Act Plays, Joseph Conrad was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (an...
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  • Tales Of Hearsay
    Joseph Conrad
    lassic Conrad short stories, including: The Warrior’s Soul, Prince Roman, The Tale, The Black Mate. According to Wikipedia: 'Joseph Conrad (1857 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language-a fact that is remarkable, as he did not learn to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and alway...
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  • An Outcast Of The Islands
    Joseph Conrad
    An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad’s experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust for the tribal chief’s daughter...
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  • Tales Of Unrest
    Joseph Conrad
    Tales of Unrest is a collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad originally published in 1898. Four of the five stories had been published previously in various magazines. This was the first published collection of any of Conrad’s stories.JOSEPH CONRAD was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz...
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    14,42 €

  • Falk
    Joseph Conrad
    Falk (1903) is composed of many elements Conrad used in his other novels and novellas. The story begins with a group of mariners dining in a small river-hostelry in the Thames estuary discussing seafaring matters - a situation he had already used in Heart of Darkness, which was written the year before. He even uses a similar comparison of the narrative present with a distant pa...
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    12,86 €

  • Within the Tides Tale
    Joseph Conrad
    Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, amongst others, on the idea of Fidelity - Joseph ConradWritten at various times, under various influences, the four stories contained in Within the Tides are linked by Conrad’s treatment of loyalty and betr...
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    17,86 €

  • A Personal Record
    Joseph Conrad
    A Personal Record is an autobiographical work (or ''fragment of biography'') by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912.It has also been published under the titles A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences and Some Reminiscences.Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author’s life.[citation needed] ...
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    15,71 €

  • The Rover
    Joseph Conrad
    The Rover is the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 1921 and 1922. It was first published in 1923, and adapted into the 1967 film of the same name.The story takes place in the south of France, against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Napoleon’s rise to power, and the French-English rivalry in the Mediterranean. Peyrol (a master-gunner in the French repu...
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    19,93 €

  • The Mirror Of The Sea
    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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  • The Point Of Honor
    Joseph Conrad
    Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D’Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. At the beginning, Feraud is the one who jealously guards his honor and repeatedly demands...
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    14,24 €

  • Typhoon
    Joseph Conrad
    Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in Pall Mall Magazine in January-March 1902. Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in 1902; it was also published in Britain in Typhoon and Other Stories by Heinemann in 1903.Captain MacWhirr sails the SS Nan-Shan, a British-built steamer running under the Siamese flag, into a typhoon-a matur...
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    12,99 €

  • Victory
    Joseph Conrad
    Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915,through which Conrad achieved ''popular successThe novel’s ''most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspectivewith the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the th...
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    24,12 €

  • A Set Of Six
    Joseph Conrad
    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. For instance, the last...
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    19,96 €

  • Under Western Eyes
    Joseph Conrad
    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 Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment; Conrad was reputed to have detested Dostoevsky. It has also been interpreted as Conrad’s response to his own early life; his father was a Polish independen...
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    23,09 €

  • The Shadow Line
    Joseph Conrad
    The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December.. It was first published in as a serial in New York’s Metropolitan Magazine in the English Review and published in book form in 1917 in the UK (March) and America. The novella depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the ...
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    14,50 €

  • Amy Foster
    Joseph Conrad
    Amy Foster'' is a short story by Joseph Conrad. Conrad’s story, told in a realist style, is deeply infused with irony and symbolism. The bay looms behind the quiet life of the village in the first lines of the story, representing the presence of the rest of the world that the townspeople cannot quite keep out. Conrad, heavily influenced by the adventure tale, uses the expected ...
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  • The Nigger Of The Narcissus
    Joseph Conrad
    The Nigger of the ''Narcissus'': A Tale of the Forecastle[a] (sometimes subtitled A Tale of the Sea), first published in the United States as The Children of the Sea, is an 1897 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad. The central character is an Afro-Caribbean man who is ill at sea while aboard the trading ship Narcissus heading towards London. Controversy around the ...
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    15,67 €

  • The Secret Agent
    Joseph Conrad
    The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907.[1] The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). The Secret Agent is one of Conrad’s later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. The novel is dedicated to H. G. Wells an...
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    19,87 €

  • The Secret Sharer
    Joseph Conrad
    The Secret Sharer'' is a short story by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, originally written in 1909 and first published in two parts in the August and September 1910 editions of Harper’s Magazine. It was later included in the short story collection Twixt Land and Sea (1912). The story was adapted for a segment of the 1952 film Face to Face, and also for a one-act play in 19...
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  • The End Of The Tether
    Joseph Conrad
    Henry Whalley is a true sailor, earning years of experience as a ship’s captain before his retirement. Faced with unexpected financial problems and a desire to help his married daughter earn her place in the world, Whalley is forced to sell his boat and buy his way back into service on a trade vessel. But Whalley is living so close to financial ruin that any small deviation fro...
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  • Some Reminiscence
    Joseph Conrad
    A Personal Record is an autobiographical work (or ''fragment of biography'') by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912.It has also been published under the titles A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences and Some Reminiscences.Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author’s life.[citation needed] ...
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  • Youth ; A Narrative
    Joseph Conrad
    Youth' is an 1898 autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad[1] published in Blackwood’s Magazine, and then included as the first story in Conrad’s 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. This volume also includes Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, stories concerned with the themes of maturity and old age, respectively. 'Youth' depicts a young man’s...
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    12,37 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    'I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horr...
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    31,55 €

  • The Nigger Of The 'Narcissus'
    Joseph Conrad
    The Nigger Of The 'Narcissus': A Tale Of The Forecastle, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Sin...
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