Joseph Conrad

First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad's two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book "a very intimate revelation. . . . I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour's confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the inscrutable Gods send to mortals, went on unreasoning and invincible,

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"Axel Heyst aims to drift through life in solitude, believing he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from humanity's passions and delusions. Then, living on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, he rescues a young English girl escaping from a man who is infatuated with her."-- From cover, pg 4.

A young man faces a desperate crisis that marks the "shadow-line" between youth and maturity. Based on Conrad's first command as a young sea captain.

A new edition of Heart of Darkness, the 1899 masterpiece by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad about a voyage up the Congo River into the Heart of Africa. The story is narrated by Charles Marlow, recalling his obsessive quest to locate the ivory trader Kurtz, who has become ensconced deep in the jungle managing a remote outpost. As he ventures further and further down the Congo, Marlow finds himself and his surroundings become increasingly untethered....

Joseph Conrad's thrilling history of a fictional South American country, its precious resources, and the men who will decide its fate The fictional country of Costaguana, loosely based on Colombia, has suffered a long string of despots more interested in lining their pockets than strengthening the nation. Discontent simmers throughout the land, but in the major port city of Sulaco, industry chugs along. Keeping the silver flowing are capable men like...

Geneva, a haven for exiles and plotters, becomes the claustrophobic stage for a profound drama of political and personal guilt. Razumov, a solitary and earnest student in St. Petersburg, is no revolutionary. His only ambition is academic success and a quiet, sanctioned life. But when a fellow student, the assassin Victor Haldin, bursts into his rooms seeking refuge, Razumov's fate is sealed in an instant of panic and betrayal. Desperate to protect...

In his first collection of short stories, Joseph Conrad, the peerless chronicler of moral crisis, turns his gaze from the high seas to the even more perilous terrain of the soul. Tales of Unrest gathers five masterful explorations of obsession, fear, and the fragility of civilisation. Journey to the remote reaches of the Malay Archipelago, where a European trader becomes the unlikely confessor to "Karain: A Memory", a native chieftain haunted by a...

El marinero Charlie Marlow narra una travesía que realizó años atrás por un río tropical, en busca de una persona llamada Kurtz, jefe de una explotación de marfil. Situada en el corazón del continente africano, Marlow es testigo de la situación extrema en que viven los colonos europeos, su brutalidad hacia las comunidades nativas, superando una serie de obstáculos tales como retrasos, enfermedades y ataques de indígenas, hasta alcanzar su...

The protagonist in Joseph Conrad's Amy Foster (1901) is Yanko Goorall, an immigrant from Polish origins like Conrad himself. Some of the novel's events are supposed to be based on actual details of Conrad's experience and married life in England. The story starts when Yanko is shipwrecked on his way to the New World and finds himself on shores of the English county of Kent. Being a complete foreigner who does not even speak the language of the country,...

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. It tells about his schooling in Russian Poland, his sailing in Marseille, the influence...