J. Conrad

This specially commissioned selection of Conrad`s matchless short stories includes such favourites as `Youth`, a modern epic of the sea; `The Secret Sharer`, a thrilling psychological drama; `An Outpost of Progress`, a blackly comic prelude to `Heart of Darkness`; `Amy Foster`, a moving story of a shipwrecked, alienated Pole; and `The Lagoon` and `Karain`, two exotic, exciting Malay tales. `Il Conde` and `The Tale` are subtle portrayals of bewildered outrage; `An Anarchist` and `The Informer` are sardonic depictions of revolutionaries; and `Prince Roman` is a tale of magnificent, doomed heroism set in Conrad`s native Poland during the Uprising of 1831. Both those new to Conrad`s work and those familiar with his novels will delight in...

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

`Then 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 tiny passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough to bury five millions of lives.` Conrad`s `monstrous town` is London, and his story of espionage and counter-espionage, anarchists and embassies, is a detective story that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc`s tenacity in maintaining her devotion to her peculiar and simple-minded brother, Stevie, as they pursue their very ordinary lives above a rather dubious shop in the back streets of Soho. However, far from offering any sentimental picture, `The Secret Agent` is Conrad`s funniest novel. Its...

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 1995

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 and the secret stuff of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself. In `Typhoon`, Conrad`s funniest story. Captain MacWhirr blunders into a hurricane that reveals the sea`s treachery, violence and terror. `Falk` is desperate to get married, but first he must tell of his terrible experiences as sole survivor of a stricken ship that once drifted into the ice-caps of Antarctica. `The Shadow-Line` is a poignant and beautiful...

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 1995

Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental Province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those, which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressures? `Nostromo` is an extraordinary illustration of the impact of foreign commercial exploits on a young developing nation, and of the problems of reconciling individual identity with a social role. Conrad peoples his imaginary Latin American state with a multi-national cast of fully-rounded characters to achieve striking realism and create a novel that he called...

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002

Jim, the first mate aboard the Patna, dreams youthful dreams of heroism and of the daring act that will prove his courage. But when the Patna, on a night crossing of the Arabian Sea, collides with a mysterious obstacle, Jim panics and jumps free. This single act of cowardice drives him to self-enforced exile as a white trader in the remote tropical outpost of Patusan. Jim`s search for redemption and his dramatic bid to vindicate his romantic ideals are the stuff of a magnificently vivid and subtle novel. With Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and The Secret Agent, Lord Jim ranks among Joseph Conrad`s masterpieces.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002