An Outcast of the Islands, Paperback - Joseph Conrad

DescriptionPeter Willems is down on his luck. The Dutch clerk has been fired for embezzlement from his job in the Indonesian port city of Makassar,...

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The two searching sequences that bookend this collection are not so much elegies as unfinished conversations with friends no longer living - friend...

See Scotland's remarkable islands from a new perspective in this beautiful guide curated by celebrated Scotland the Best author, Peter Irvine.Publi...

Victory: An Island Tale - Joseph Conrad

Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Felix is summoned to the twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlan and charged with finding witnesses to a very publ...

Reducere. The American writer Suzanne Kamata had lived in Japan for more than half of her life, yet she had never explored the small nearby islands of the In...

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Publisher: Peepal Tree Press LtdAuthor(s): Brenda FlanaganNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 135 x 205 x 19Cover type: Paperback...

August Strindberg (1849-1912, Sweden's internationally recognised dramatist, was an astonishingly prolific all-rounder. The new National Edition of...

Reducere. A relaxing vacation to the Caribbean island of St. Martin becomes the adventure of a lifetime. Seeking a restful getaway, Ben's plans are for lazin...

A guidebook to 11 easy walks (2.5 to 16km) and 4 boat trips on the Scilly Isles. The routes explore Tresco, St Martin's, St Mary's and Bryher, as w...

DescriptionDrawing upon his experiences as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River, Joseph Conrad wrote "An Outpost of Progress, " a sharp crit...

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DescriptionA novella about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, as told by the story's narrator Marlow. M...

Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as...

A unique eyewitness contribution to history on the Falklands conflict and backgroundPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Harold BrileyIllustr...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODENLondon is under threat. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, wh...

Publisher: SelfMadeHeroAuthor(s): Joseph ConradNumber of pages: 128Collection: Eye ClassicsPublication date: 2010Dimensions: 240 x 143 x 15Cover ty...

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

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Reducere. Heart of Darkness describes a steamboat voyage up and down the Congo River by a British sea captain named Charles Marlow, who is commissioned to fe...

This volume offers scholars the first authoritative text of two works produced collaboratively by two of the most important modern British novelist...

Chance was Conrad's most popular book. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, the abandoned daughter of a bankrupt tycoon, who struggles to achieve...

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Publisher: Oxford University PressAuthor(s): Joseph ConradIllustration(s): 1 mapNumber of pages: 400Collection: Oxford World's ClassicsPublication ...

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"[A] triumph of graphic art [and] a compelling work of literary interpretation."-Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University, ...

Reducere. Heart of Darkness is a novella written in 1899 by Anglo-Polish novelist Joseph Conrad. It is about a voyage into the Congo Free State in the heart ...

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A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. ...

Presents a story woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and oste...

Giovanni Battista Fidanza, also known as Nostromo, is a revered seaman who is asked to smuggle a shipment of silver out of a war-torn country. Desp...

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Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as w...

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Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism Heart of Darkness is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recountin...

Reducere. From the rain forests of Almayer's Folly to the Mediterranean coast of The Rover, Conrad's first and final completed novels are played out against ...

Reducere. Description'I asked myself what I was doing there, with a sensation of panic in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and absurd...