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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.

"The Warriors Soul" is one of the best-known short stories written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). First published in 1917, it is a war tale of loyalty, murder and exile, set during Napoleons retreat from Moscow.This edition is enriched with two other Conrads texts: "A Personal Record", an autobiographical work written in 1912, and "Notes on My Books", a 1920 essay on his writings.

Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard is a novel, originally published serially for T.P.s Weekly in1904, set in Costaguana, an imaginary country of South America that in its description recalls Colombia. Two characters dominate the plot: Mrs. Gould, who owns a silver-minig concession near the city of Sulaco, and the anti-hero Nostromo, an Italian expatriate. After Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness this novel marks the end of the first part of Conrads literary production.This ebook contains the Authors Note at the first edition in which Conrad explains the origins of this novel.Joseph Conrad (Berdychiv, December 3, 1857 Bishopsbourne, August 3, 1924) was a polish writer naturalized british. He is considered one of the most important modern writers in the english language.

El socio reúne una buena parte de las características de la obra de Joseph Conrad, si bien en esta ocasión el escenario no es una gran aventura. Se trata de un relato construido en diferentes planos y escrito con un estilo agil, de gran originalidad. Un hombre de dudosa condicion moral embauca a su honrado e ingenuo socio para hundir un barco de su propiedad y asi poder cobrar la prima del seguro. Lo central en esta historia es el juego de tensiones psicologicas, desarrollado con maestria y rematado con un final de accion trepidante.

The Tale by Joseph Conrad brings together in one collection four stories by Joseph Conrad. Set onboard a ship during an unnamed war, the title story is a harrowing account of guilt and responsibility, showing Conrad at his most accomplished as a master of psychological penetration. Accompanying this is another study of the brutal turns of fortune visited on the unwary by war: The Warriors Soul takes place during Napoleons invasion of Russia, and traces the interweaving relationship between a beautiful woman and the two men who love her. Prince Roman, meanwhile, is one of Conrads earliest stories, and the only piece in his entire oeuvre that touches on his homeland, Poland. The collection concludes with The Black Mate, a witty and light-hearted illustration of life aboard ship.""Spanning Joseph Conrads entire literary career, these four stories touch on some of his major interests - war, imperialism, life at sea - showing him at his most intimate and ambitious."

Un capitán de barco, Marlow, se dirige al África central para hacerse cargo de una embarcación que recorre el río Congo; se trata de un vapor que presta servicio a los diferentes puestos que ha establecido una compañía comercial en aquella zona. Al llegar a su destino, el recién llegado capitán descubre que la empresa comercial -o colonial-, está llevando a cabo una incalificable rapiña. Al avanzar en su viaje, descubrirá que el encargado del puesto más alejado, el señor Kurtz, se ha vuelto loco... Uno de los dos relatos que Conrad se trajo como botín de sus vivencias en África (el otro fue Una avanzada del progreso). Francis Ford Coppola se basó en él para elaborar el guión de su película Apocalipse Now (1979)

Whats madness? Only something just a tiny bit wrong in the make of your brain. Why shouldnt there be a mad ship--I mean mad in a ship-like way, so that under no circumstances could you be sure she would do what any other sensible ship would naturally do for you. There are ships that steer wildly, and ships that cant be quite trusted always to stay; others want careful watching when running in a gale; and, again, there may be a ship that will make heavy weather of it in every little blow. But then you expect her to be always so.

"Because of the Dollars" is a short story written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). First published in 1914, it is a typical Conradian tale of sea, sacrifice and disenchantment.

"The book is absorbingly interesting: dramatic, subtle, fascinating with allurement." The New York Times.Captain Tom Lingard is on his way to help his friends, a Malay prince and princess, reclaim their stolen land when he gets distracted by a marooned yacht. Lingard feels obliged to help his fellow Europeans out of their plight and hes increasingly attracted to Edith Travers, the married woman on board but his rescue of the pleasure boat and its passengers plunges the captain deep into a dangerous vortex of local politics.One of Conrads less familiar tales, this powerfully intense novel provides atmospheric seafaring glimpses of the Malay Archipelago along with a suspenseful plot that builds to an explosive climax. The Rescue is chronologically the first in the authors Lingard trilogy, which includes Almayers Folly and An Outcast of the Islands, although it appeared years later. Begun in 1896 and published in 1920, just four years before Conrads death, the novel adds resonance to Conrads other works on colonialism and imperialism.

Prince Roman is a Pole who gives up his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as a (virtually) unknown soldier resisting Russian oppression. When captured, he has every opportunity to escape punishment, but declares himself unequivocally committed to Polish liberation. As a result he suffers a quarter of a century in the nineenth century Tsarist equivalent of the GULAG the Siberian mines before returning to live in humble circumstances on what should have been his own estate before devoting his life to helping other people.

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish novelist, writing in English, while living in England. Many critics regard him as one of the greate

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomos Ladies Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from detachment and isolation. Featuring arguably the most interesting hero created by Conrad, Victory is both a compelling tale of adventure and a perceptive study of the power of love.

"A Smile of Fortune: Harbour Story" is one of the best-known novellas written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). First published in 1912, the tale is centered around a young sea captain who has to face a bewildering ethical dilemmaThis edition is enriched with two other Conrads texts: "A Personal Record", an autobiographical work written in 1912, and "Notes on My Books", a 1920 essay on his writings.

The Tale by Joseph Conrad brings together in one collection four stories by Joseph Conrad. Set onboard a ship during an unnamed war, the title story is a harrowing account of guilt and responsibility, showing Conrad at his most accomplished as a master of psychological penetration. Accompanying this is another study of the brutal turns of fortune visited on the unwary by war: The Warriors Soul takes place during Napoleons invasion of Russia, and traces the interweaving relationship between a beautiful woman and the two men who love her. Prince Roman, meanwhile, is one of Conrads earliest stories, and the only piece in his entire oeuvre that touches on his homeland, Poland. The collection concludes with The Black Mate, a witty and light-hearted illustration of life aboard ship.""Spanning Joseph Conrads entire literary career, these four stories touch on some of his major interests - war, imperialism, life at sea - showing him at his most intimate and ambitious."

In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate, the differences between instinct and intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival. 'Falk', the companion sea-story, contrasts, as Conrad once put it, 'common sentimentalism with the frank standpoint of a more or less primitive man', a man with a conscience, however, about the girl he desires. In one of the 'land-stories' Conrad explores the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England; in the other, the plight of a woman ironically trapped by the unwitting alliance of two retired widowers - each blind in his own way.

"A Smile of Fortune: Harbour Story" is one of the best-known novellas written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). First published in 1912, the tale is centered around a young sea captain who has to face a bewildering ethical dilemmaThis edition is enriched with two other Conrads texts: "A Personal Record", an autobiographical work written in 1912, and "Notes on My Books", a 1920 essay on his writings.

We knew him in those unprotected days when we were content to hold in our hands our lives and our property. None of us, I believe, has any property now, and I hear that many, negligently, have lost their lives; but I am sure that the few who survive are not yet so dim-eyed as to miss in the befogged respectability of their newspapers the intelligence of various native risings in the Eastern Archipelago. Sunshine gleams between the lines of those short paragraphssunshine and the glitter of the sea...

"The Partner" is a short story written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). First published in 1911, it is an intriguing sea tale on a mysterious shipwreck.This edition is enriched with two other Conrads texts: "A Personal Record", an autobiographical work written in 1912, and "Notes on My Books", a 1920 essay on his writings.

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