Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz, dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities.

The Secret Agent: Penguin English Library

By Joseph Conrad

'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world'

In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him...

Published: 26/09/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141199559

RRP: $9.95

Heart of Darkness

By Joseph Conrad

'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.'

Published: 02/07/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780241956809

RRP: $19.95

Heart of Darkness: Popular Penguins

By Joseph Conrad

Marlow, a ferry-boat captain on foreign assignment in the Congo, searches for the legendary and feared Mr. Kurtz, unprepared for what he will find.

Published: 29/08/2011

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143566441

RRP: $9.95

The Portable Conrad

By Joseph Conrad

A great novelist of the sea, a poet of the tropics, a critic of empire and analyst of globalization, a harbinger of the modern spy novel, an unparalleled observer of the moments in which people are stripped of their illusions – Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.

Published: 31/01/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143105114

RRP: $9.95

Typhoon and Other Stories

By Joseph Conrad

In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate, the differences between instinct and intelligence...

Published: 13/09/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141441955

RRP: $9.95

The Secret Agent

By Joseph Conrad

In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verlac, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan...

Published: 24/09/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141441580

RRP: $9.95

Nostromo

By Joseph Conrad

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 any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of the subtropical landscape, this picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities...

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 any of the finest recent accounts of that...

Published: 13/09/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141441634

RRP: $9.95

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' and Other Stories

By Joseph Conrad

The volume includes: 'Youth'; 'The Secret Sharer'; 'The Lagoon'; 'An Outpost of Progress'; 'Il Conde'; '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.

Published: 13/09/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141441702

RRP: $9.95

Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

By Joseph Conrad

Two of Conrad's BEST-KNOWN works - in a single volume

In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Joseph Conrad has written two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fiction of the twentieth century.

Two of Conrad's BEST-KNOWN works - in a single volume

In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Joseph Conrad has written two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fiction...

Published: 29/09/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780451531032

RRP: $8.95