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Works of Joseph Conrad. (25+ Works) Includes Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, Lord Jim, Nostromo, Under Western ... more
Table of Contents
List of Works by Genre and Title
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
Joseph Conrad Biography
Novels
Almayer's Folly
The Arrow of Gold
Chance
End of the Tether
Gaspar Ruiz
Heart of Darkness
The Inheritors
Lord Jim
The Nigger Of The "Narcissus"
Nostromo
An Outcast of the Islands
The Point Of Honor
The Rescue
Romance
The Secret Agent
A Set of Six
The Shadow Line
Some Reminiscences
Tales Of Hearsay
Tales of Unrest
'Twixt Land & Sea
Typhoon
Under Western Eyes
Victory
Within the Tides
Plays
One Day More
Short Stories
Amy Foster
Falk
The Lagoon
The Secret Sharer
To-morrow
Youth
Non-fiction
Notes on Life and Letters
Notes on My Books
A Personal Record
The Mirror of the Sea
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First published November 26, 2007
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Joseph Conrad
3,291 books4,976 followersJoseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable, and amoral world.
Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events.
Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on the national experiences of his native Poland—during nearly all his life, parceled out among three occupying empires—and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche.
Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events.
Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on the national experiences of his native Poland—during nearly all his life, parceled out among three occupying empires—and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche.
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November 30, 2013
Why bother? And why again, and why now? Because he uses English the way only someone who wasn't brought up to believe that only a particular kind of rarified English person could write of speak proper English can use English, which means he can use the full range and depth and breadth of it without botherng about things like introductory commas and where the verb should go and which wonderful English words that rarified English person would'nt use because they might sound pretentious. Because he anticipates the 20th century with more prescience even than Dostoyevsky - the rise of Stalin (Under Western Eyes), the rise of the American corporate (Nostromo), the consequences of imperial recklessness (Lord Jim), the rise of the faceless, heartless corporate functionary (which is what Heart of Darkness is really about), death by surveillance (The Secret Agent), and then quite amazingly in Chance (which no one reads any more), the rise and fall and blind refusal to accept any blame of the 21st century banker; and most of all because he reminds us that of all the many centuries or human existence, or at least all of the centuries we've lived since we became more or less aware of ourselves as thinking, feeling creatures, the 20th century is the least representative. So Conrad is the lens through which we can look from perspective of the end of the 19th century on the mess we made of the last one.
Oh yes, and how (especially in Victory) he anticipates Kafka, Satre, Camus and the rest of them, making me think that if he didn't actually read Schopenhauer and Nietzsche he must have heard about them or breathed them in the air, maybe on a ship floating somewhere in the South Pacific.
Then, even more astonishingly, The Inheritors, co-written by Ford Madox Ford in 1901, which you could easily dismiss as a mere lament for the passing of the age if it weren't for the way it resonates so profoundly with this post-20th century malaise that's left us so clueless and bewildered not in spite of but because of the transparency of our collective failures.
Oh yes, and how (especially in Victory) he anticipates Kafka, Satre, Camus and the rest of them, making me think that if he didn't actually read Schopenhauer and Nietzsche he must have heard about them or breathed them in the air, maybe on a ship floating somewhere in the South Pacific.
Then, even more astonishingly, The Inheritors, co-written by Ford Madox Ford in 1901, which you could easily dismiss as a mere lament for the passing of the age if it weren't for the way it resonates so profoundly with this post-20th century malaise that's left us so clueless and bewildered not in spite of but because of the transparency of our collective failures.
May 7, 2017
What an education!
The work of Conrad is a lesson into life, relationships, strength and weakness,hero and villain,. Difficult reading but worth the effort and I finished it. How exciting.
The work of Conrad is a lesson into life, relationships, strength and weakness,hero and villain,. Difficult reading but worth the effort and I finished it. How exciting.
January 21, 2026
Conrad is magnificent and, this edition, is very good. Cheap too. Anyone who loves adventure, good writing, good plotting. these books can't be bettered. If you only read a few of the books, the Island novels are outstanding. I would recommend.
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May 14, 2011
The Selected Short Storues of Joseph Conrad.
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