This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verlac, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit to anarchists in some spectacular way. The upshot of the affair is that his evil plan goes horribly wrong and the repercussions are dramatically different from those that Verloc intended.
Great adventures of the sea and of the soul, related by a novelist considered one of the greatest writers in the language. Contains three of Conrad's most powerful stories --"Youth: A Narrative" (1898), "Typhoon" (1902) and "The Secret Sharer" (1910) -- each probing deeply, suspensefully into the mysteries of human character.
La línia d'ombra conta la història d'un jove capità de vaixell en el seu primer comandament, amb l'embarcació aturada als mars tropicals, la tripulació presa de la febre, i el rosec d'un sentiment d'incompetència culpable. La novel·la és narrada des de la perspectiva d'algú que travessa 'la línia d'ombra', que fa 'el pas -com diu el mateix Conrad- de la joventut, amb la seva despreocupació i fervor, a una etapa més conscient i dolorosa de la vida'.
The finest of all Conrad´s tales, Heart of darkness is set in an atmosphere of mistery and menace, and tales of Marlow´s peilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer´s agent, the renowned and formidable Mr Kurtz. What he sees on his journey, and his eventual encounter wuth Kurtz, horrify and perplex him, and call into question the very basis of civilization and human nature. Endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted for film, radio, and television, the story shows Conrad at his most intense and sophisticated.
