Joseph Conrad
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Lord Jim: "The story of a young sailor whose moment of cowardice haunts him for the rest of his life." Nostromo: "Set in the fictitious South American republic of Costaguana, Nostromo reveals the effects that misguided idealism, unparalleled greed, and imperialist interests can have on a fledgling nation." From cover, page 4.
Author
Series
Doubleday anchor books ; A173
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
Description
Youth: Tale of the 400 ton barque Judea and its attempt to sail from Scotland to Bangkok. Heart of Darkness: Marlow tells of his voyage in command of a steamboat far up the Congo River to relieve the mad ivory trader Kurz. The End of the Tether: Upright 67 year old Captain Whalley compromises with his own rectitude without understanding the evil around him. As his coastal steamer sails through the Pacific his own falsehoods and the ambitions and obsessions...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The volume includes: "Youth"; "The Secret Sharer"; "The Lagoon"; "An Outpost of Progress"; "Il Conde"; and, "The Duel". The intention is a range of settings - we move from the sea to the colonial world, the Far East and Africa to England and then the Continent
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Introduction -- The Congo diary, 1890 -- Up-river book, 1890 -- The sisters, 1895-96 -- Letter to the New York times Saturday book review, 1901 -- The books of my childhood, 1902 -- On the North Sea outrage, 1904 -- My best story and why I think so, 1906 -- The silence of the sea, 1909 -- A set of six, 1915 -- From the preface to "Youth" and "Gaspar Ruiz," 1920 -- Cablegram to the Committee for the Polish government loan, Washington, 1920 -- Foreword...
