The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it wa
Joseph Conrad's most compelling and famous novella, "Heart of Darkness" focuses on Charles Marlow, an ivory transporter. Loosely translated into the film "Apocalypse Now," this story of civilization v
Under Western Eyes, by Joseph Conrad, is about living in a time of revolutionary urgency, individual fragility in a delicate system, and personal honor. Razumov, the hero of Conrad's book, is a univer
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it wa
Almayer's Folly, published in 1895, is Joseph Conrad's first novel. Set in the late 19th century, it centers on the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to
An early example of modernist literature that many consider to be Conrad's best work. It is a story of remorse and of the effort to regain self-respect for a deed of fatal and unexpected cowardice wit
Jim (his surname is never disclosed), a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. Jim joins his captain and other crew members in
This is the original and unabridged text of Nostromo, a Joseph Conrad classic ranked as one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century.F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "I'd rather have written N
