Author: Joseph ConradPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Tales of hearsay. Last essays
Author: Joseph ConradTales of hearsay ; Last essays
Author: Joseph ConradHeart of Darkness - Ed. Goonetilleke - Second Edition
Author: Joseph ConradPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551113074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The story of Marlow travelling upriver in central Africa to find Kurtz, an ivory agent as consumed by the horror of human life as he is by physical illness, has long been considered a classic, and continues to be widely read and studied. This edition, edited by one of the leading figures in ‘the Conrad controversy,’ includes an introduction and explanatory notes, as well as a fascinating variety of contemporary documents that help to set this extraordinary work in the context of the period from which it emerged. The introduction and bibliography have been updated, and two new appendices have been added; the second of these is a selection of Alice Harris’s extraordinary but little-known photographs documenting the horrors of colonialism in turn-of-the-century Congo.
Tales of Hearsay. Las essays
Author: Joseph ConradLast Essays
Author: Joseph ConradPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521190592
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The first scholarly edition of Conrad's posthumously published prose pieces, as well as his Congo notebooks.
Collected Works of Joseph Conrad: Tales of hearsay. Last letters
Author: Joseph ConradA Conrad Chronology
Author: O. KnowlesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137452390
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Newly revised and enlarged, the second edition of A Conrad Chronology draws upon a rich range of published and unpublished materials. It offers a detailed factual record of Joseph Conrad's unfolding life as seaman and writer as well as tracing the compositional and publication history of his major works.
Space, Conrad, and Modernity
Author: Con CoroneosPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198187363
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Dotyczy twórczości Josepha Conrada (Teodora Józefa Konrada Korzeniowskiego).
The Secret Agent
Author: Joseph ConradPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0679417230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Inspired by an attempt in 1894 to blow up London’s Greenwich Observatory, The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed original of the long tradition of espionage thrillers that explore the confused motives at the heart of terrorism. Published in 1907, Joseph Conrad’s novel was remarkably prescient, anticipating the political contours of the next century, as well as the classic spy novels of such later writers as Graham Greene and John Le Carré. Conrad’s double agent, Verloc, is a Russian spy tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group in London. His mission to discredit the ineffectual radicals and their cause goes awry, and involves his unsuspecting wife and her vulnerable younger brother in disastrous ways. In its use of powerful psychological insight to intensify narrative suspense, The Secret Agent broke new literary ground. Conrad was the first novelist to discover the strange, in-between territory of the political exile, and his genius was such that we still have no truer map of that region’s moral terrain than his story of a terrorist plot and its tragic consequences for both the guilty and the innocent. Introduction by Paul Theroux (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed).
Victory
Author: Joseph ConradPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375400478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Joseph Conrad possessed a matchless gift for embodying life as it is lived under extreme physical and psychological pressure. Victory, his last masterpiece, tells the story of Axel Heyst, a radically isolated, philosophically minded soul living apart on a remote Pacific island, who performs two acts of instinctive kindness and thereby embroils himself in storms of greed and vengeance, and of love and mercy. When Heyst impulsively rescues a young English musician, Lena, from the predations of a lascivious hotel owner named Schomberg, he cannot know that she will be the means of releasing him from the emotional detachment with which he has long barricaded himself. Their affair does not last long, however, once the enraged Schomberg sends agents of revenge to invade Heyst’s island retreat. Out of the maelstrom of violence and tragedy that ensues, Conrad produces a profound, unflinching meditation on human connection and redemption.