Joseph Conrad
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Heart of Darkness (Unabridged Classic Collector’s Edition) by Joseph Conrad (HB)
- Page : 91
- ISBN : 978-9394885370
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1 cm
“The mind of man is capable of anything.”Charles Marlow, an English seaman, narrates his journey up the River Congo in search of an ivory trader named Mr. Kurtz. As he sails into the heart of Africa, from the company’s outer station to the central and inner stations, he comes across scenes of brutality, torture, slavery and horror. What happens when Marlow finally meets Kurtz?A journey not only into the depths of the African jungles but also into the dark recesses of the human soul, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a critical exploration of the spine-chilling truths and hypocrisy of the European colonialism. The novella has undergone several adaptations across radio, theatre, television and motion pictures. It continues to remain one of Conrad’s outstanding works.
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Nostromo : A Tale of The Seaboard By Joseph Conrad (Hardcover)
Nostromo is Joseph Conrad’s masterly tale of corruptionand politics. The nation of Costaguana is beset by dictatorship, corruptionand misrule. When Charles Gould’s silver mine is threatened bysquabbling warlords and ruthless revolutionaries, he calls on thehelp of the seemingly-incorruptible Nostromo to protect hisinterests. But will Nostromo be able to succeed at this task, orwill he fall victim to his own machinations? About the Author: Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-born English novelist and master mariner.
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The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad (Hardcover)
The Secret Agent is one of Conrad’s two supreme masterpieces, one of the two questionable classics of the first order that he added to the English novel and in its own way, it is like Nostromo in the subtle and triumphant complexity of its art” and ndash; F.R. Leavis.An actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 is taken by Conrad as the basis of the central action in the novel. Verloc, who is secretly working for the police and a foreign power’ (Russia) while ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho, is required by his masters to discredit the anarchist group in some spectacular way. He persuades his wife’s simpleton brother, Stevie, to plant a bomb – provided by the novel’s most terrifying figure, ‘The Professor’ and ndash; at the Greenwich Observatory. But the plan goes horribly wrong and the repercussions are dramatically different from those that Verloc intended.
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