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Selected Short Stories of Joseph Conrad by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Chosen and Introduced by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury and Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. This specially commissioned selection of Conrad's short stories includes favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer, a thrilling psychol ...Show more
Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics
ContentsAUTHOR'S NOTEKARAIN, A MEMORYTHE IDIOTSAN OUTPOST OF PROGRESSTHE RETURNTHE LAGOON
The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. On sea, on land, at the edges of the colonial experience, Joseph Conrad's short stories offer a glimpse of th ...Show more
The Lingard Trilogy by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Almayer's Folly was Conrad's outstanding debut novel: as well as exploring the culture of a part of the world previously unknown to English fiction, it showed immense sophistication in its handling of narrative, time-shifts and point of view. Hailed as 'a writer of genius' by contemporary reviewers, Con ...Show more
The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Nature Classics Library
When Joseph Conrad was discharged from the clipper Torrens in London during the summer of 1893, his seafaring career was over. He had travelled the world by then, risen in rank from apprentice to captain, survived shipwreck and turbulent seas. But after nineteen years afloat he longed for the land, and ...Show more
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. 'Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, varie ...Show more
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic - to terror, too, perhaps.' Considered one of Co ...Show more
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The Secret AgentBy Joseph ConradA novel treating of the underworld of London life--the underworld of anarchists and spies. Verloc, "the secret agent," is ostensibly an anarchist, but in reality a spy of one of the big Embassies. He keeps a dim, disreputable shop in side street of Soho, where he lives wi ...Show more
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, ...Show more
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad; Paul Theroux (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
With an Introduction by Graham Stewart, author of the internationally acclaimed Burying Caesar and The History of The Times, The Murdoch Years. Joseph Conrad was a remarkable and unique phenomenon in British literature. Born in Poland in 1857, he worked as a merchant seaman before turning his hand to wr ...Show more
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
'Spookily topical' Guardian Read the world's first political thriller. London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such te ...Show more