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'Twixt Land and Sea Tales (1912)
Almayer's Folly (1895)
Amy Foster (1901)
An Outcast of the Islands (1896)
The Arrow of Gold (1919)
Chance (1913)
End of the Tether (1902)
Falk (1903)
Gaspar Ruiz (1928)
Heart of Darkness (1899)
The Inheritors (1901)
Lord Jim (1900)
The Mirror of the Sea (1906)
The Nigger of the ''Narcissus'' (1897)
Nostromo (1904)
Notes on Life and Letters (1921)
Notes on My Books (1920)
One Day More (1904)
A Personal Record (1912)
The Point of Honor (1908)
The Rescue (1920)
Romance (1903)
The Secret Agent (1907)
The Secret Sharer (1912)
A Set of Six (1908)
The Shadow Line (1917)
Some Reminiscences (1912)
Tales of Hearsay (1911)
Tales of Unrest (1898)
To-morrow (1921)
Typhoon (1919)
Under Western Eyes (1911)
Victory (1914)
Within the Tides (1916)
Youth (1902)
'Twixt Land and Sea Tales (1912)
Joseph Conrad has come into his own. The three stories contained in this volume take rank with the most mature and romantic of his work. The charming love and adventure of the life which he depicts in remote places confirm the growing belief that he is among the greatest of living creative writers.
Almayer's Folly (1895)
This is a decidedly powerful story of an uncommon type, and breaks fresh ground in fiction.... All the leading characters in the book--Almayer, his wife, his daughter, and Dain, the daughter's native lover--are well drawn, and the parting between father and daughter has a pathetic naturalness about it, unspoiled by straining after effect.
Amy Foster (1901)
The story of a dull-witted but compassionate English girl who falls in love with a strange man from Eastern Europe. This ignorant, wild, and romantic peasant from the Carpathian Mountains has been cast up by the sea, the only survivor from an emigrant ship bound for America. Unable to speak a word of English and totally mystified as to where he is--it might have been America or Hell, itself--he leads a wretched and hunted existence till the chance kindness of Amy Foster opens his eyes.
The Arrow of Gold (1919)
Conrad lived an adventurous life, at one time becoming involved in gunrunning and political conspiracy, which he later fictionalized in this novel.
Chance (1913)
A remarkable book, the story of Flora De Barral, daughter of the Great De Barral, a monumental swindler, and her love for the sea captain who married her. Marlow tells the story in his usual quiet manner which is so dramatic under the quiet, and shows Chance the master hand directing and interfering at any moment.
Lord Jim (1900)
An ambiguous story many consider to be Conrad's best work, it is a story of remorse and of the effort to regain self-respect for a deed of fatal and unexpected cowardice. The sea and secluded Eastern settlements are the background.
The Nigger of the ''Narcissus'' (1897)
The story of one voyage of the sailing-ship Narcissus from Bombay to London--a story dealing with calms and with storms, with mutiny on the high seas, with bravery and with cowardice, with tumultuous life, and with death, the releaser from toil.
Nostromo (1904)
The history of a South American revolution. But on this leading theme there hang such a multitude of side-issues and of individual experiences that it is certainly the hardest of Conrad's novels to summarize. In this story of vast riches, of unbridled passions, of patriotism, of greed, of barbaric cruelty, of the most debased and of the most noble impulses, the whole history of South America seems to be epitomized.
The Point of Honor (1908)
A tale of two officers, set during the Napoleonic Wars. The basis for Ridley Scott's The Duellists.
The Secret Agent (1907)
A novel treating of the underworld of London life--the underworld of anarchists and spies. Verloc, "the secret agent," is ostensibly an anarchist, but in reality a spy of one of the big Embassies. He keeps a dim, disreputable shop in side street of Soho, where he lives with his wife, Winnie, his wife's mother, and his half-witted brother-in-law, Stevie. Verloc in his heavy and slothful way is a domesticated man and well pleased with his comfortable existence. So that he is horribly upset when he gets a broad hint from the Embassy that he is not doing enough for his money...
Typhoon (1919)
A classic story of sea-faring life at the turn of the century; Captain Macwhirr, estranged from his family and his crew, sails the Siamese steam Nan-Shan into the center of a typhoon.
Youth (1902)
"Youth" seems to supply something fresh yet essential to man, to give him a new harmonious arrangement, a pleasure as of spring or of ripeness or lucent streams, yet unexpected in a way. It bears the miracle-sign..
