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Almayer's Folly and The Rover by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
From the rain forests of Almayer's Folly to the Mediterranean coast of The Rover, Conrad's first and final completed novels are played out against contrasting backgrounds. Almayer, in Borneo, is hopelessly obsessed by his deluded dreams for himself and his daughter, which take no account of her falling ...Show more
Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire'. Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Ku ...Show more
Heart Of Darkness (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by "Hellboy" artist Mike Mignola "Heart of Darkness" is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz- dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, w ...Show more
Heart of Darkness & Other Stories by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colon ...Show more
Heart of Darkness (Penguin English Library) by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak o ...Show more
Heart of Darkness and the Complete Congo Diary (Alma Classics) by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the peri ...Show more
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!' Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his ...Show more
Lord Jim by JOSEPH CONRAD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford. First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an e ...Show more
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Fiction
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad. 'A murmur of dismay and horror ran through the crowd at the sight of that familiar token. The old nakhoda stared at it, and suddenly let out one great fierce cry, deep from the chest, a roar of pain and fury, as mighty as the ...Show more
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspi ...Show more
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Fiction
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Nostromo" by Joseph Conrad. 'There is something in a treasure that fastens upon a man's mind. He will pray and blaspheme and still persevere, and will curse the day he ever heard of it, and will let his last hour come upon him unawares, still believing t ...Show more