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Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved "popular success." The New York Times, however, called it "an uneven book" and "more open to criticism than most of Mr. Conrad's best work." The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior perspective from Heyst, and the final section. It has been adapted into film a number of times Through a business misadventure, the European Axel Heyst ends up living on an island in what is now Indonesia, with a Chinese assistant Wang. Heyst visits a nearby island when a female band is playing at a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg. Schomberg attempts to force himself sexually on one of the band members, Alma, later called Lena. She flees with Heyst back to his island and they become lovers. Schomberg seeks revenge by attempting to frame Heyst for the "murder" of a man who had died of natural causes and later by sending three desperadoes (Pedro, Martin Ricardo and Mr. Jones) to Heyst's island with a lie about treasure hidden on the island. The three die (Wang kills one) but Lena dies as well and Axel is overcome with grief and commits suicide. In Notes on My Books: Easyread Edition, Conrad wrote of his "mixed feelings" about the initial reception of the book which had been published while Europe had been engaged in fighting the great war.[5] The initial reception of the work had considered it "a melodramatic, rather Victorian novel, representing Conrad's artistic decline." However, later critiques have described it as "a highly complex allegorical work whose psychological landscape and narrative structure lay the groundwork for the modern novel." The character of Heyst has been compared to Shakespeare's Hamlet[8] with the story itself drawing heavily on The Tempestand the ending of the work like "an Elizabethan stageplay where the stage is clogged with corpses" Allen Simmons states that the character of Lena was shaped by Therese from the 1894 French novel Le Lys rouge[9] ('The Red Lily'), by Anatole France.

The title character, James Wait, is a dying West Indian black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus sailing from Bombay to London. Wait, suffering from tuberculosis, becomes seriously ill during the voyage, and his plight arouses the humanitarian sympathies of many of the crew. However, the ship's master Captain Alistoun and an old sailor named Singleton remain concerned primarily with their duties and appear indifferent to Wait's condition.

Joseph Conrad escribió esta novela basada en su experiencia en el Congo. Este clásico habla de la lucha del hombre contra los elementos naturales, si bien ha servido y sirve para criticar la amarga historia de un pueblo sometido a los excesos y privilegios de la colonización. El corazón de las tinieblas, publicado en 1902, trasciende la circunstancia histórica y social para convertirse en una exploración de las raíces de lo humano, esas catacumbas del ser donde anida una vocación de irracionalidad destructiva que el progreso y la civilización consiguen atenuar pero nunca erradicar del todo. Quizá la mejor introducción a El corazón de las tinieblas sea el escueto comentario que el propio Conrad hizo tras su viaje al Congo en 1890: Antes del Congo yo era un solo un simple animal. Aquel viaje que sin duda representó para él un descenso a los infiernos, es el que nos cuenta por boca de Marlow, su alter ego, con un relato estremecedor en el que las fueras elementales de la Naturaleza hallan su contrapartida en las fuerzas oscuras y primitivas que actúan en el interior del hombre. En este relato, de una rara y subyugadora perfección estilística, Conrad parece que alcanza su objetivo como escritor: nos hace oír, sentir y ver por medio del poder de la palabra escrita.

Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.

Special STUDENT EDITION includes footnoted definitions of difficult words and phrases, along with lined sidebars on every page for notes! Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad's classic tale of Marlow, and his voyage up the Congo River in Africa in search of Kurtz, an enignatic ivory trader. In the process, Marlow comes to grips with questions of the influence of imperialism on the natives, and the true meaning of darkness--especially the darkness of the human heart. This special student edition of Heart of Darkness is also in LARGE PRINT (14 point font!) for easy reading, especially for persons with close-up vision needs. The footnoted definitions are great for students who will no longer need a dictionary or cell phone by their side to look up all those old words used in novels long ago! The definitions are right there at the bottom of each page! The lined sidebar on every page is also great for taking notes to identify key elements of the book, such as theme, figurative language, symbols and more! Click the "Look Inside" and compare our edition with other editions and you will see the difference!

Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. This is indeed a work full of "sudden passions", in which Conrad is able to show how the full intensity of existence can be experienced by the man who, in the words of the older Captain Giles, is prepared to "stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience." A subtle and penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood, The Shadow-Line investigates varieties of masculinity and desire in a subtext that counters the tale's seemingly conventional surface. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Una guerra revolucionaria destaca muchos raros caracteres, los saca entre la oscuridad, lugar común de tantas vidas humildes en las zonas tranquilas de la sociedad. Algunos seres llegan a la fama por sus vicios o sus virtudes, o simplemente por sus actos, que a veces logran una importancia transitoria para caer enseguida en el olvido. Al fin de una lucha armada, sólo sobreviven los nombres de algunos caudillos, posteriormente consignados en la historia, de modo que cuando desaparecen del recuerdo activo de los nombres, viven silenciosamente en los libros. El nombre del general Santierra alcanzó esa fría inmortalidad de papel impreso. Fue un sudamericano de buena familia, y los libros de su época le citan entre los que libertaron aquel continente del dominio español. La larga contienda entablada por la independencia, en un lado, y por el dominio, en el otro, se desarrolló, en el transcurso de los años y entre las vicisitudes de la cambiante fortuna, con la fiereza y crueldad de una lucha por la vida. Todo sentimiento de fraternidad y compasión desapareció entre la inquina del odio político. Y como suele ocurrir en la guerra, el pueblo, quien menos había de ganar con el resultado, fue el que más sufrió en sus oscuras personas y en sus humildes bienes.

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Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British citizenship in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.

Chance is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1913 following serial publication the previous year. Although the novel was not one upon which Conrad's later critical reputation was to depend, it was his greatest commercial success upon initial publication. Chance is narrated by Conrad's regular narrator, Charles Marlow, but is characterised by a complex, nested narrative in which different narrators take up the story at different points. The novel is also unusual among its author's works for its focus on a female character: the heroine, Flora de Barral. The narrators describe and attempt to interpret various episodes in the life of Miss de Barral, the daughter of a convicted swindler named Smith de Barral (though this character is famous in the world of the novel as a criminal, he may, at least at first, have been merely an incompetent banker). Miss de Barral leads a sheltered life while her father is prosperous, then must rely on the generosity of others, who resent her or have agendas for her, before she escapes by marrying one Captain Anthony. Much of the book involves the musing of the various narrators over what she and the Captain expected from this union, and what they actually got from it. When her father is released from prison, he joins them on ship, and the book heads towards its denouement.

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Aunque hacía ya mucho que el vapor Sofala había virado hacia la costa, la baja y húmeda franja de tierra seguía pare¬ciendo una simple mancha obscura al otro lado de una franja de resplandor. Los rayos del sol caían con violencia sobre la mar calma, como si se estrellasen sobre superficie diamantina produciendo una polvareda de centellas, un vapor de luz des-lumbradora que cegaba la vista y agobiaba el cerebro con su trémulo brillo. El capitán Whalley no contemplaba nada de esto. Cuando el fiel serang se había acercado al amplio sillón de bambú que llenaba cumplidamente para informarle en voz baja de que había que cambiar el rumbo, se había levantado enseguida y ha¬bía permanecido en pie, mirando al frente, mientras la proa del buque giraba un cuarto de círculo. No había dicho palabra, ni siquiera para ordenar al timonel que mantuviese el rumbo. Era el serang, un viejo malayo muy despierto, de piel muy obscura, el que había musitado la orden al hombre del timón. Y entonces el capitán Whalley se había sentado de nuevo len¬tamente en el sillón del puente para clavar la mirada en la cubierta que tenía bajo los pies.

Joseph Conrad, 3 December 1857 Berdichev, Ukraine - 3 August 1924) was a Polish novelist who wrote in English, after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honour. Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors. -wikipedia

Heart of Darkness is the classic novella about Charles Marlow, an ivory transporter on the Congo River in Central Africa, who becomes obsessed by Mr. Kurtz, a notorious ivory procurement agent. The story deals with the conflict between savagery and civilization, and ranks as one of the best works of literature in the Western canon. This Large Print Edition is presented in easy-to-read 16 point type.

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, "The Point of Honor" 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, Feraud is the one who jealously guards his honor and repeatedly demands satisfaction anew when a duelling encounter ends inconclusively; he aggressively pursues every opportunity to locate and duel his foe. As the story progresses, D'Hubert also finds himself caught up in the contest, unable to back down or walk away.

One Day More, A Play in One Act, By Joseph Conrad, Classic One Act Plays, Joseph Conrad was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.

"Jugend" ist eine autobiographische Erzählung von Joseph Conrad. Die Geschichte handelt von dem jungen Seemann Charles Marlow, der als zweiter Offizier seine erste Reise nach Asien antritt. Da das Schiff aber vor Java in Brand gerät, sieht sich die Mannschaft gezwungen, in die Beiboote zu gehen und an Land zu rudern, weshalb sie das Vorhaben, nach Bangkok zu fahren, aufgeben muss. In der eigentlichen Rahmenhandlung erzählt Marlow 20 Jahre später einigen anderen Veteranen der Handelsmarine von diesen aufregenden Ereignissen. "Es gibt nichts Herrlicheres als die See, finde ich, die See allein. Oder macht es nur die Jugend? Wer kann es sagen? Doch ihr hier, - ihr alle habt etwas vom Leben gehabt, Geld, Liebe - was immer man am Land erreicht -, und, sagt mir, war es nicht die schönste Zeit, damals, als wir jung auf See waren, jung waren und nichts besaßen, auf der See, die nichts gibt, außer harten Schlägen und mitunter einer Gelegenheit, sich der eigenen Kraft bewusst zu werden? Ist es nicht das, das allein, woran ihr alle mit Heimweh denkt?" (Joseph Conrad)

Born in 1857 in Poland, Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30. In the intervening years he lost both parents, becoming an orphan at 11, being thereafter raised by an uncle, who let the boy go to Marseille at age 16, where he began to work on merchant ships - which at times included stints of gun running and the intrigue of political conspiracy. At age 36 his life turned from one of ships to one of literary pursuit. Conrad brought to English literature both a fresh layer of style and a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of works. He wrote many novels, which are correctly regarded today as some of the finest in English literature. Among their canon are Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Shadow Line, and of course Heart Of Darkness.

Romance is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. It was the second of their three collaborations. Romance was eventually published by George Bell and Sons in London in 1903 and by McClure, Phillips in New York in March 1904. According to Max Saunders, Conrad, in his quest to obtain a literary collaborator, had been recommended by several literary figures. W. E. Henley pointed to Ford as a suitable choice for Conrad. Literary collaboration was not particularly uncommon when Conrad proposed it to Ford, but neither was it considered the proper way for serious novelists, as Ford was aware: "The critics of our favoured land do not believe in collaboration." The novel was adapted into the film The Road to Romance. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Heart of Darkness (1899) 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 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 of darkness. Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between so-called civilised people and those described as savages; Heart of Darkness raises important questions about imperialism and racism.Originally published as a three-part serial story in Blackwood's Magazine, Heart of Darkness has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the sixty-seventh of the hundred best novels in English of the twentieth century. **Plot summary** Aboard the Nellie, anchored in the River Thames near Gravesend, England, Charles Marlow tells his fellow sailors about the events that led to his appointment as captain of a river steamboat for an ivory trading company. As a child, Marlow had been fascinated by "the blank spaces" on maps, particularly by the biggest, which by the time he had grown up was no longer blank but turned into "a place of darkness." Yet there remained a big river, "resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country and its tail lost in the depths of the land." The image of this river on the map fascinated Marlow "as a snake would a bird". Feeling as though "instead of going to the centre of a continent I were about to set off for the centre of the earth", Marlow takes passage on a French steamer bound for the African coast and then into the interior. After more than thirty days the ship anchors off the seat of the government near the mouth of the big river. Marlow, still some two hundred miles to go, now takes passage on a little sea-going steamer captained by a Swede. He departs some thirty miles up the river where his Company's station is. Work on the railway is going on, involving removal of rocks with explosives. Marlow enters a narrow ravine to stroll in the shade under the trees, and finds himself in "the gloomy circle of some Inferno": the place is full of diseased Africans who worked on the railroad and now await their deaths, their sickened bodies already as thin as air. Marlow witnesses the scene "horror-struck". Marlow has to wait for ten days in the Company's Outer Station, where he sleeps in a hut. At this station, which strikes Marlow as a scene of devastation, he meets the Company's impeccably dressed chief accountant who tells him of a Mr. Kurtz, who is in charge of a very important trading-post, and a widely respected, first-class agent, a "'very remarkable person'" who "'Sends in as much ivory as all the others put together'". The agent predicts that Kurtz will go very far: "'He will be a somebody in the Administration before long. They, above--the Council in Europe, you know--mean him to be.'"..... Joseph Conrad (Polish pronunciation: born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe....

Escrita en 1900, Lord Jim es la gran novela sobre el tenue filo que separa las dos caras de una misma moneda: la cobardía y el valor. Jim es un joven idealista que descubre el mar a bordo del Patna, un viejo vapor que transporta a ochocientos peregrinos hacia La Meca. Una noche, el barco se hunde y la tripulación lo abandona sin auxiliar a los peregrinos. Jim asume la vergüenza de no haber nada por éstos e inicia una verdadera odisea en la selva malaya, donde se gana el afecto de los nativos. Convertido en caudillo y defensor de su nuevo pueblo, inicia una nueva vida dedicada al mar

Almayer's Folly, Joseph Conrad's first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Nadine Gordimer writes in her Introduction, "Conrad's writing is lifelong questioning . . . What was 'Almayer's Folly'? The pretentious house never lived in? His obsession with gold? His obsessive love for his daughter, whose progenitors, the Malay race, he despised? All three?" Conrad established in Almayer's Folly the themes of betrayal, isolation, and colonialism that he would explore throughout the rest of his life and work