A vain, ambitious writer finds his certainties undone on a lonely road from a cathedral city toward Dover, where a striking young woman meets his flirtation with wit, irony, and an unsettling composure. As she claims to come from the "Fourth Dimension," she turns his questions back on him, speaking of a new nation destined to inherit the earth: a colder, harder race without pity, ideals, or reverence, who will outlast sentimental humanity through patience and nerve. Her strange authority, ...

Cette collection réunit les œuvres de Joseph Conrad, romancier polonais devenu maître de la langue anglaise et chroniqueur inégalé de la mer et de la condition humaine. Elle comprend Au cœur des ténèbres, Lord Jim et Nostromo, entre autres chefs-d'œuvre. Une exploration profonde du colonialisme, de la morale et de l'aventure maritime, réunie en un seul volume élégant pour Chronicle Vault.

Heart of Darkness is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, London, England. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between London and Africa as places ...

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

Captain Charlie Marlow travels to the Congo on behalf of a Belgian trading company. His journey turns into a voyage into the darkest depths of colonialism and, at the same time, explores the fundamental questions of human existence.Conrad wrote his magnificent novella in just a few weeks, drawing on his own harrowing experiences in the Congo.Englischsprachige AusgabeHochwertig ausgestattetes TaschenbuchMit einem persönlichen deutschsprachigen Nachwo...

Journey into the depths of the sea—and the darker depths of the human mind. The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad brings together the major novels of Joseph Conrad, one of the most influential writers of English-language literature and a master of maritime and psychological fiction. Drawing on his experiences as a sailor, Conrad created unforgettable stories set against oceans, distant ports, tropical rivers, colonial territories, and remote settlements. His characters frequently confront p...

Continue your journey through the world's most enduring literary masterpieces. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 2 brings together another diverse selection of classic works by influential authors from different eras and literary traditions. From romantic stories and dramatic novels to gripping adventures, mysterious tales, philosophical works, and unforgettable explorations of human nature, this collection offers a rich variety of classic reading in one volume. Across t...

Discover the timeless stories that have shaped literature across generations. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 1 brings together a diverse selection of classic literary works from some of the world's most influential authors. From unforgettable romances and thrilling adventures to haunting mysteries, philosophical works, dramatic stories, and imaginative fiction, this collection offers readers an opportunity to explore a wide range of literary traditions and genres in o...

These three sea tales plunge into Conrad's world of ships, shorelines, and isolated lives, where danger can arrive as suddenly as a reef and secrecy can weigh as heavily as a storm. In A Smile of Fortune, The Secret Sharer, and Freya of the Seven Isles, he blends maritime suspense with intimate psychological conflict, tracing the loneliness of command, the strain between duty and desire, and the fragile bonds formed in confined, perilous settings. A ship stranded in bright emptiness, a war...

A Petersburg student betrays a revolutionary to the police, is sent by them to Geneva to spy on the exiles, and finds the dead man's sister waiting there. Conrad's father died in Russian exile and he loathed the whole subject; he had a breakdown finishing this book, and it is the most controlled thing he wrote — a study of the informer as the century's representative man.

A shopkeeper in Soho sells stationery, pornography and information, and takes his orders from an embassy that wants an outrage shocking enough to frighten England into repression. Conrad based the plot on a real attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory and wrote it in his third language, with a coldness he never matched elsewhere. Nothing in it is simple except the title.

A new captain, unsure of himself and unknown to his crew, takes the anchor watch alone and finds a naked man in the water at the ship's side — a fugitive from another vessel, and his double in everything but circumstance. Conrad had commanded a ship in those waters and wrote all his fiction in his third language; this is the tightest thing he made.