Conrad Joseph: 705 books

Book cover of Typhon
by Joseph Conrad
Language: French
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Commandant le Nan-shan, le capitaine Mac Whirr est un homme taciturne. Voguer sur la mer de Chine pendant la saison des typhons ne l'inquiete pas vraiment. Quand, pendant la traversée, il voit l'aiguille du barometre chuter comme il ne l'a jamais vue auparavant, sa premiere réflexion est qu'un sale...
Book cover of Sous les yeux d'Occident
by Joseph Conrad
Language: French
Release Date: June 22, 2015

Un étudiant russe trouve un soir chez lui, caché, l'assassin d'un ministre de la répression tsariste survenue des heures plus tôt. Ce dernier lui demande de l'aider à fuir. Notre héros accepte, mais finit par le dénoncer à la police. Il se trouve alors pris dans un engrenage et est engagé pour espionner des révolutionnaires actifs à l'étranger, et notamment en Suisse....
Book cover of Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
Language: German
Release Date: May 28, 2019

vollständige Fassung, kommentiert und in Neuer Deutscher Rechtschreibung Der fiktive Südamerika-Staat Costaguana, seit Jahrzehnten geprägt von Diktaturen, Bürgerkriegen und blutigen Regimewechseln. Eine Silbermine wird zum Gegenstand machtvoller Interessen im In- und Ausland. Durch eine neuerliche...
Book cover of Typhoon
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013

There's a treacherous typhoon on the horizon, and Captain McWhirr of the good ship Nan-Shan has two choices - go around it, or go through it. He chooses the latter, but will the consequences bring disaster to his ship, crew and him?
Book cover of Tales of Unrest
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013

A collection of short stories first published in 1898, and includes: Karain: A Memory, The Idiots, An Outpost of Progress, The Return, and The Lagoon.
Book cover of Amy Foster
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014

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...
Book cover of Das Ende vom Lied

Das Ende vom Lied

Erzählung

by Joseph Conrad
Language: German
Release Date: November 11, 2010

Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur.Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.Alles ist anders gelaufen als erwartet. Kapitän Whalley, früher wohlhabend, erfolgreich, berühmt, ist im Alter dem finanziellen...
Book cover of Jugend

Jugend

Erzählung

by Joseph Conrad
Language: German
Release Date: November 11, 2010

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur.Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.Ein triumphierendes Bewusstsein der eigenen Kraft, ein Gefühl der Unsterblichkeit,...
Book cover of Herz der Finsternis

Herz der Finsternis

Erzählung

by Joseph Conrad
Language: German
Release Date: November 11, 2010

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur.Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.Kolonialwarenhändler erschließen den Dschungel von Belgisch-Kongo im Dienste...
Book cover of Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012

Jim, a young British seaman, joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning their sinking ship full of passengers. A few days later, they are picked up, and the passengers are later also saved. The reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone.
Book cover of Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012

In this symbolic story we follow Charles Marlow as he recounts his adventure to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary from dusk through to late night. The passage of time and the darkening sky during Marlow's narrative parallels the atmosphere of the events he narrates.
Book cover of Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014

Nostromo is set in the South American country of Costaguana with a long history of tyranny, revolution and warfare. Costaguana has recently experienced a period of stability under the dictator Ribiera. Charles Gould is a native Costaguanero of English descent who owns an important silver-mining concession....
Book cover of The Shadow Line

The Shadow Line

A Confession

by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014

A young man is taking a sea captaincy which brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain.
Book cover of The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012

A member of an anarchist cell and a secret agent Mr. Verloc is ordered to carry out a terrorist attack on Greenwich Observatory by a bomb explosion. The novel is set in London and follows lives of Verloc, who also owns a sex shop, and his friends, a group of anarchists, largely ineffectual as terrorists, yet well known to the police.
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