Author: CONRAD JOSEPH
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840225952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736

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Contains the novels: Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands and The Rescue With an introduction by Robert Hampson

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1681957078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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Running Away Doesn't Always Remove the Problem “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.” - Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands This second novel of Conrad 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.

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Sailing towards one of the islands of the Eastern Archipelago where his friend Hassim awaits help to regain his kingdom, Captain Tom Lingard is called to rescue an English yacht stranded on a sandbank. On board is beautiful Mrs. Travers, a woman from a wholly different world, but with a spirited independence that matches Lingard's own. In this story of love and choice, Lingard emerges alongside Willems and Mister Kurtz as one of Conrad's finest creations.

Author: J. H. Stape
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521484848
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Leading scholars provide a comprehensive introduction to the work of Joseph Conrad.

Author: Lissa Schneider
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136730656
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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In Joseph Conrad’s tales, representations of women and of "feminine" generic forms like the romance are often present in fugitive ways. Conrad’s use of allegorical feminine imagery, fleet or deferred introductions of female characters, and hybrid generic structures that combine features of "masculine" tales of adventure and intrigue and "feminine" dramas of love or domesticity are among the subjects of this literary study. Many of Conrad’s critics have argued that Conrad’s fictions are aesthetically flawed by the inclusion of women and love plots; thus Thomas Moser has questioned why Conrad did not "cut them out altogether." Yet a thematics of gender suffuses Conrad’s narrative strategies. Even in tales that contain no significant female characters or obvious love plots, Conrad introduces elusive feminine presences, in relationships between men, as well as in men’s relationships to their ship, the sea, a shore breeze, or even in the gendered embrace of death. This book investigates an identifiably feminine "point of view" which is present in fugitive ways throughout Conrad’s canon. Conrad’s narrative strategies are articulated through a language of sexual difference that provides the vocabulary and grammar for tales examining European class, racial, and gender paradigms to provide acute and, at times, equivocal investigations of femininity and difference.

Author: Ian Burnet
Publisher: Monsoon Books
ISBN: 1915310318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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The life of Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story written by somebody like Joseph Conrad. The young Conrad dreamed of a life at sea and eventually became a British merchant seaman, working his way up from apprentice to captain on classic three-masted square-rigged barques. He would also become one of the most important novelists in the English language, and almost half of his life's work is set in Southeast Asia. Conrad's favorite destination was the vibrant, bustling port of Singapore as well as the remote ports of the Dutch East Indies, and his early works - Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Lord Jim and The Rescue - are based on the people and places he encountered in his own voyages on the Vidar, a trading vessel that plied the waters of the Indonesian archipelago from its base in Singapore. In Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages, Ian Burnet places Conrad's Malay novels into their proper narrative sequence and explores the backstory of his characters helping the reader to visualize the cultural and historical context of Conrad's time in late 19th-century Southeast Asia.

Author: Heli ena Krenn
Publisher: Garland Science
ISBN: 1135788138
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853267437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Includes three stories where characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret stuff of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself'.

Author: Lucy Clarke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501116738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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"[A] spine-tingling adventure novel about a group of friends whose journey around the world on a yacht turns from a trip to paradise into a chilling nightmare when one of them disappears at sea."--Provided by publisher.

Author: Heliéna Krenn
Publisher: Garland Science
ISBN: 9780824057985
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.