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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics
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. ...Show more
The Secret Agent: With an Introduction by Giles Foden by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: With an Introduction by Giles Foden
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODEN 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 terrorist is Verloc. He is the secret a ...Show more
The Shadow Line - A Confession by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
Only the young have such moments. I don't mean the very young. No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.One closes behind one the little gat ...Show more
The Shadow-Line - A Confession by Joseph Conrad; Jacques Berthoud (Notes by, Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
'A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt before or since.'Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his f ...Show more
Three Sea Stories: Typhoon, Falk, the Shadow-line by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance a ...Show more
To-Morrow: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 64 by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics
'It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head.' One of Conrad's most powerful, gripping stories. Set in a desolate English port, this is a spare, savage turn-of-the-century story of lives haunted by the sea. Introducing Little Black ...Show more
Typhoon : Little Black Classic by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'She's done for...' The crew aboard a ramshackle steamer faces a treacherous storm in this gripping tale, inspired by Conrad's own time at sea. This is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a tast ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Under Western Eyesby Joseph Conrad"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in th ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by P ...Show more
Victory by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The girl he had come across ... that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.' Damaged by his father's nihilistic philosophy, Ax ...Show more