Joseph Conrad

Chance is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1913, following serial publication the previous year. Although the novel was not one upon which Conrad's later critical reputation was to depend, it was his greatest commercial success upon initial publication

This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature. The collection includes works ...

This significant piece of literature by Joseph Conrad is a moody, symbolic narrative that follows Charles Marlow as he retells his early days as a steamboat captain on the Congo River....

Penguin Classics presents Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness....

Exclusively from Audible. The Secret Agent is based on an actual attempt made in 1894 to blow up the Greenwich Observatory....

Contents: Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders In The Rue Morgue Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes From The Underground ...

Typhoon is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest and of the captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit....

Nostromo is a colorful and adventurous tale set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana. In the midst of a revolution, the citizens of Costaguana live under a brutal dictatorship....

Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to....

In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police....

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The story tells of Jim, a young and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. One night, when the ship collides with an obstacle, it begins to sink.....

Long hailed as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, Joseph Conrad's tale of one man's descent into the mysterious and deadly Congo jungle to find a messianic ivory trader is a journey into the depths of man's own greed and quest for power....

Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives....

One of the great adventure novels of our language creates a most engaging central character....

Flora de Barral, the daughter of a bankrupt businessman and swindler, must find her own way in the world when her father is convicted of financial speculation. Unfortunately, this is no easy thing for a single and vulnerable young woman in turn-of-the-century London....

This wide-ranging collection comprises the following six short stories by Joseph Conrad....

When Jim, a young merchant seaman, joins a ship carrying Muslims to Mecca, he's flush with heroic daydreams. But after only a few days aboard, the Patna hits something in the night and begins to take on water....

First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad’s two autobiographical memoirs....

Jim, the first mate aboard a small steamer named the Patna, travels from port to port in the Pacific Ocean....