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Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!' Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his ...Show more
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they ...Show more
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explo ...Show more
Lord Jim - Introduction by Norman Sherry by Joseph Conrad; Norman Sherry (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Lord Jim is a classic story of one man's tragic failure and eventual redemption, told under the circumstances of high adventure at the margins of the known world which made Conrad's work so immediately popular. But it is also the book in which its author, through a brilliant adaptation of his stylistic ...Show more
Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) - A New Selection of the Sharp, Sensitive and Much-Revered Stories by Guy de Maupassant; Elsie Martindale Hueffer (Translator); Ada Galsworthy (Translator); Robert Hampson (Contribution by); Helen Chambers (Contribution by); Joseph Conrad (Contribution by)
Category: Classics | Series: riverrun editions
A priest receives an unexpected visitor from his past. A triumphant celebration ends in murder. A doctor tells of an unrequited love that only ended with death. Maupassant's direct treatment of sex and sexuality, and his insistence that the artist's primary duty was faithfulness to his own perception ...Show more
Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics
The Mirror of the Sea is Joseph Conrad's true-life account of his seventeen-year odyssey at sea, told through a series of essays. Portraying the ocean as a metaphor against which men could measure themselves, Conrad hints at the themes of his later fictional works.
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspi ...Show more
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, Nostromo explores the volatile politics and crippling greed surrounding the San Tom silver mine. The story of power, love, revolutions, loyalty, and reward is told with richly evocative descriptions and brilliantly realized characters. But Nostr ...Show more
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I have heard no end of tales of his strength, his audacity, his fidelity...incorruptible! It is indeed a name of honour for the Capataz of the Cargadores of Sulaco.' One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo enacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American p ...Show more
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana".
Schaum's Outlines Italian Grammar 4th edition - McGraw by Joseph Germano; Conrad Schmitt
Category: Dictionaries | Series: Schaum's Outline Ser.
Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes more than 350 exercises with answers to sharpen your Italian grammar skills. Plus, you will have access to 2.5 hours of downloadable audio files for additional practice--it's just lik ...Show more
Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics
'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 workin ...Show more