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A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Joseph Conrads early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a seaman. It is also an artistic and political manifesto. The introduction traces Conrads sources and gives the history of writing and reception. The essay on the text and the apparatus set out the textual history. The notes explain literary and historical references, identify places, and gloss foreign terms. Four maps and a genealogical table supplement this explanatory material.

The Secret Agent is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy against Britain. Verloc is also a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives and bric-a-brac. His friends are a group of anarchists of which Comrade Ossipon, Michaelis, and "The Professor" are the most prominent. The group produces anarchist literature in the form of pamphlets entitled F.P. The Future of the Proletariat. Although a member of an anarchist cell, Verloc is also secretly employed by the embassy of a foreign country, but Mr. Vladimir, the new First Secretary in the Embassy is not satisfied with Verlocs contribution. In order to redeem himself, Verloc must carry out an operation the destruction of Greenwich Observatory by a bomb.

Joseph Conrad was a British author who is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers in English literature. Conrads style influenced many of the great authors that followed him. This edition of The Informer includes a table of contents.

The masterpiece of Joseph Conrads later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow-Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the "shadow-line" between youth and maturity.This brief but intense story is a dramatically fictionalized account of Conrads first command as a young sea captain trapped aboard a becalmed, fever-wracked, and seemingly haunted ship. With no wind in sight and his crew disabled by malaria, the narrator discovers that the medicine necessary to save the sick men is missing and its absence has been deliberately concealed. Meanwhile, his increasingly frightened first mate is convinced that the malignant ghost of the previous captain has cursed them. Suspenseful, atmospheric, and deceptively simple, Conrads tale of the sea reflects the complex themes of his most famous novels, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.

An enthralling novel of Gaspars inspirational rise from obscurity to light. Remarkable for its irony, it marvellously presents mans capacity for self-deception. Attention-grabbing!

Jim, the first mate aboard the patna, dreams youthful dreams of heroism and of the daring act that will prove his courage. His dramatic bid to vindicate his romantic ideals are the stuff of a magnifi

'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 Peter the Great. But in pre-revolutionary Russia Peter's legacy is autocracy tempered by assassination; and Razumov is soon caught in a tragic web with Haldin's trustful sister Natalia in spy-haunted Geneva. Their fateful story is told by an elderly Englishman who loves Natalia but plays his part of a 'dense Westerner' to the end.

®¡Ah, el horror! ¡El horror!¯ son las últimas palabras que el agente comercial Kurtz pronuncia poco antes de morir. Marlow, tiempo despues, obligado junto con el resto de la tripulación del Nellie a

Tejida en torno a una anécdota mínima –el viaje que por el río Congo hace Marlow para relevar a Kurtz, un agente comercial que se halla gravemente enfermo–, El corazón de las tinieblas constituye una

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An intense, psychologically charged domestic drama, The Return is a brilliant and haunting exploration of the insecurities that lie at the heart of human relationships.

Typhoon is a novella by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in Pall Mall Magazine in JanuaryMarch 1902. Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in 1902; it was also published in Britain in Typhoon and Other Stories by Heinemann in 1903.