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  • THE RESCUE
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    THE RESCUE
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    The Rescue was originally published in 1920; it concludes what is sometimes referred to as The Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer, Vidar. Although it was the last of the three novels to be published, after Almayer's Folly (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896), the events related in the novel precede those. The Rescue is ...

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  • HEART OF DARKNESS
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    HEART OF DARKNESS
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    It's 1783 and wealthy Paul Déroulède has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrespectfully of his latest infatuation, Adèle de Monterchéri. Déroulède had not intended to get into the quarrel but had a tendency to blunder into things - "no doubt a part of the inheritance bequeathed to him by his bourgeois ancestry." I Will Repay is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pi...

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  • JOSEPH CONRAD
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    JOSEPH CONRAD
    JOSEPH CONRAD / ALLAN INGRAM
    First Published in 1986. On 22 January 1910, after two years’ work on what he had intended as a break from Chance, Conrad finally finished the manuscript of Under Western Eyes. It had been begun, like many of his novels, as a short story, to be called simply ‘Razumov’, in which he would try ‘to capture the very soul of things Russian’ (Jean-Aubry, 1927, II, p. 64). Some 130,000...

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  • TO-MORROW
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    TO-MORROW
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Set in a desolate English port, Conrad’s spare, savage turn-of-the-century story of lives haunted by the sea. One of Conrad’s most powerful, gripping stories. (Goodreads) ...

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  • DAS ENDE VOM LIED
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    DAS ENDE VOM LIED
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Kapitän Whalley, der durch einen Bankencrash sein Vermögen verloren hat, muss sein Schiff verkaufen, um seine Tochter in Australien unterstützen zu können. Um selbst über die Runden zu kommen, beteiligt er sich mit seinen letzten Mitteln an einem Dampfer, der einmal im Monat die Handelsroute flussaufwärts befährt, und übernimmt das Kommando. Der erste Maschinist Massy ist zugle...

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  • AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS
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    AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust for the tribal chief's daughte...

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  • THE ARROW OF GOLD A STORY BETWEEN TWO NOTES
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    THE ARROW OF GOLD A STORY BETWEEN TWO NOTES
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Reflecting Conrad's genius for narrative that focuses on the quest for inner truths, The Arrow of Gold is an exploration of the dangerous appetites of men and of human vulnerability, as well as a profound meditation on the emotional boundary between people. During the Carlist war of the early 1870s, a young sailor, the unnamed protagonist, joins the champions of Don Carlos de B...

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  • GASPAR RUIZ
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    GASPAR RUIZ
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Auszug: "Ein Revolutionskrieg reißt so manche absonderliche Gestalten aus der Verborgenheit, die bei geordneten bürgerlichen Verhältnissen das gewöhnliche Los schlichter Leute ist. Gewisse Persönlichkeiten werden berühmt durch ihre Laster und Tugenden, oder einfach durch ihre Taten, die eine zeitweilige Bedeutung haben mögen; und dann vergißt man sie. Nur die Namen einiger weni...

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  • DIE
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    DIE "TREMOLINO"
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Die Titelerzählung "Die Tremolino" schildert ein Abenteuer, das Conrad als junger Seemann, in einen Waffenschmuggel zugunsten spanischer Royalisten verstrickt, auf einer Zweimastbark erlebte. ...

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  • IM TAIFUN
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    IM TAIFUN
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Auszug: "Die Gesichtszüge des Herrn Mac Whirr, Kapitäns des Dampfers Nan-Shan, schienen das vollkommene Widerspiel seines Charakters zu sein: sie boten keine bestimmten Merkmale weder von Festigkeit noch von Beschränktheit; sie drückten überhaupt keinerlei Eigentümlichkeit aus; sie waren einfach gewöhnlich, ausdruckslos und unbeweglich. Das Einzige, was sich in seinem Aussehen ...

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  • NOTES ON MY BOOKS
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    NOTES ON MY BOOKS
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    In Notes on My Books (1920), Joseph Conrad recounts his experiences with the writing process. He recounts in detail his intentions and aspirations for each of his major works. ...

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  • THE RESCUE A ROMANCE OF THE SHALLOWS
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    THE RESCUE A ROMANCE OF THE SHALLOWS
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows (1920) is one of Joseph Conrad's works contained in what is now sometimes called the Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar. Although it was the last of the three novels to be published, after Almayer's Folly (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896), the events related in the novel pr...

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  • SUSPENSE A NAPOLEONIC NOVEL
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    SUSPENSE A NAPOLEONIC NOVEL
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Conrad's last novel set in Genoa in early 1815. This is the story of Cosmo Latham, an Englishman and veteran of the late war against Napoleon, looking to see what he was unable to see earlier and perhaps even get a glimpse of the Emperor himself. But when he finds a girl from his youth, he finds that his emotions can get the better of him. (Google) ...

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  • WITHIN THE TIDES
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    WITHIN THE TIDES
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Written at various times, under various influences, the four stories contained in Within the Tides are linked by Conrad's treatment of loyalty and betrayal. They range in setting from the Far East via eighteenth-century Spain to England. The tone shifts from the tragic inevitability of The Planter of Malata and the pathos of Because of the Dollars to the gothic The Inn of the T...

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  • DER GEHEIMAGENT EINE EINFACHE GESCHICHTE
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    DER GEHEIMAGENT EINE EINFACHE GESCHICHTE
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Der Geheimagent: Eine einfache Geschichte (The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale) ist ein Roman von Joseph Conrad aus dem Jahr 1907. Der Roman gehört mit Nostromo und Mit den Augen des Westens zu den politischen Romanen Conrads. Hinter der Ebene des Spionageromans verbirgt sich eine komplexe und ironische Auseinandersetzung mit dem kleinbürgerlichen Leben in der modernen Großstadt. C...

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  • YOUTH, A NARRATIVE
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    YOUTH, A NARRATIVE
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Youth is an 1898 autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad. "Youth" depicts a young man's first journey to the East. It is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Lord Jim, Chance, and Heart of Darkness. The narrator's introduction suggests this is the first time, chronologically, the character Marlow appears in Conrad's works. ...

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  • ONE DAY MORE A PLAY IN ONE ACT
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    ONE DAY MORE A PLAY IN ONE ACT
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    A retired coasting skipper, Captain Hagbred, spends every day preparing for when his son will finally come home back home to him. They had parted many years earlier on less than good terms and Hagberd had received no word of his son's whereabouts or health in many years. Yet, despite their bitter parting and the lack of correspondence, Captain Hagberd had somehow convinced hims...

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  • END OF THE TETHER
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    END OF THE TETHER
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    The End of the Tether is one of the many books that author Joseph Conrad wrote about sailors and the sea. Using his own personal experiences as a merchant marine as the foundation for his writing, Conrad produced some of the most realistic sea tales of the nineteenth century. Henry Whalley is a true sailor, earning years of experience as a ship’s captain before his retirement. ...

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  • THE MIRROR OF THE SEA
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    THE MIRROR OF THE SEA
    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...

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  • THE SECRET AGENT A SIMPLE TALE
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    THE SECRET AGENT A SIMPLE TALE
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. The novel is dedicated to H. G. Wells and d...

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  • THE NIGGER OF THE
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    THE NIGGER OF THE "NARCISSUS" A TALE OF THE FORECASTLE
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle[a] (sometimes subtitled A Tale of the Sea), first published in the United States as The Children of the Sea, is an 1897 novella by Joseph Conrad published in the United Kingdom. The central character is an Afro-Caribbean man who is ill at sea while aboard the trading ship Narcissus heading towards London. Because of the no...

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  • ALMAYER'S FOLLY A STORY OF AN EASTERN RIVER
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    ALMAYER'S FOLLY A STORY OF AN EASTERN RIVER
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Almayer's Folly (1895) was Conrad's first novel, set in a remote Bornean outpost at the end of the last century. Conrad draws on his own experience to present the strains of life at a cultural crossroads. The Dutch trader, Almayer, is stranded in Sambir, thirty miles up a virtually unknown equatorial river. He lives among of and new cultures; his wife is Sulu (Philippino), behi...

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  • AMY FOSTER, JUGEND UND WEIHE DREI KURZGESCHICHTEN
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    AMY FOSTER, JUGEND UND WEIHE DREI KURZGESCHICHTEN
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Amy Foster ist eine Kurzgeschichte von Joseph Conrad geschrieben 1901. Ein armer Auswanderer aus Mitteleuropa, der von Hamburg nach Amerika segelt, erleidet Schiffbruch vor der Küste Englands. Die Bewohner der umliegenden Dörfer, die sich zunächst des Untergangs und damit der Möglichkeit von Überlebenden nicht bewusst sind, betrachten ihn als gefährlichen Landstreicher und Verr...

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  • UNDER WESTERN EYES
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    UNDER WESTERN EYES
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland. This novel is considered to be one of Conrad's major works and is close in subject matter to The Secret Agent. It is full of cynicism and conflict about the historical failures of revolutionary movements and ideals. Conrad remarks in this book, as wel...

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  • THE POINT OF HONOR A MILITARY TALE
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    THE POINT OF HONOR A MILITARY TALE
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    The Point Of Honor is a historical fiction work by Joseph Conrad. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. At the beginning, Ferau...

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  • SPIEL DES ZUFALLS EINE GESCHICHTE IN ZWEI TEILEN
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    SPIEL DES ZUFALLS EINE GESCHICHTE IN ZWEI TEILEN
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Der Roman ist in zwei Teile gegliedert, so wie es der Untertitel bereits ankündigt. Das Besondere ist die raffinierte Erzählweise. Conrad entfaltet hier in höchster Perfektion seine schon aus Lord Jim bekannte Standpunkttechnik. Kapitän Marlow (bekannt aus Herz der Finsternis, Lord Jim und Jugend) schildert – aus der Perspektive einer zufälligen Ferienbekanntschaft – das Schick...

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  • TYPHOON
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    TYPHOON
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad. Captain MacWhirr sails the SS Nan-Shan, a British-built steamer running under the Siamese flag, into a typhoon—a mature tropical cyclone of the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. Other characters include the young Jukes - most probably an alter ego of Conrad from the time he had sailed under captain John McWhirr - and Solomon Rout...

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  • ´TWIXT LAND AND SEA
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    ´TWIXT LAND AND SEA
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    ‘Twixt Land and Sea (1912) contains three long stories written for magazines in the 1909 11 period. ‘The Secret Sharer’ is one of the great tales in the English language. All three tales explore a young captain under stress. Although in this period of renewed personal and financial turmoil Conrad’s imagination turns nostalgically to life at sea, the sea is no longer the simplif...

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  • AMY FOSTER
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    AMY FOSTER
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    Amy Foster is a short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1901. A poor emigrant from Central Europe sailing from Hamburg to America is shipwrecked off the coast of England. The residents of nearby villages, at first unaware of the sinking, and hence of the possibility of survivors, regard him as a dangerous tramp and madman. He speaks no English; his strange foreign language frig...

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  • THE SECRET SHARER
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    THE SECRET SHARER
    JOSEPH CONRAD
    The Secret Sharer is a short story by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, originally written in 1909. As dusk begins to fall, the unnamed narrator of the story, the new Captain of a British vessel currently anchored at the mouth of the Meinam River in the Gulf of Siam, stands on the deck of his ship before joining his crew for supper. The time is approximately eight o'clock. A...

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