Joseph Conrad

Owen Knowles

A group of white men journeys up the Congo River to invade the jungles of the Belgian Congo, in an effort to rob the natives of their ivory.

Heart of Darkness

George Stade

In "Heart of Darkness, Captain Marlowe must wend his way up the African Congo to recover the missing Colonel Kurtz in one of the greatest steamship adventures ever told. As Marlowe's ship Nellie scrapes along the Congo, the voyage into the human soul, like the morass of steaming foliage along the banks, becomes increasingly dark and perilous. In addition to the Marlowe tales "Heart of Darkness and "Youth, this new volume includes Conrad's classic doppelganger tale "The Secret Sharer and the lesser known "Amy Foster." Michael Matin is a professor in the English Department of Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. Includes an Original Map of the Congo.

Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction

Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist.

Set in a desolate English port, Conrad's spare, savage turn-of-the-century story of lives haunted by the sea.

To-Morrow

Presents the classic story of a steamship captain pitted against a storm that taxes his courage and his ship beyond what he believed possible

Typhoon

A young sea captain's first command 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.

A Confession

The Shadow-line

The Secret Sharer is a popular early 20th century novel written by author Joseph Conrad. The story taking place at sea, is told from the perpsective of a young sea captain. Not knowing his crew ahead of time except for the previous night, he struggles to see if he can life up to the authorty role that is a must among captains. The Secret Sharer is a an excellent book for those who are interested in novels dealing with the sea and also those who are fans of the writings of Joseph Conrad.

The Secret Sharer

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official. Asked to spy on the family of the assassin — his close friend — he must come to terms with timeless questions of accountability and human integrity.

Under Western Eyes

The Nigger Of The Narcissus

عربي - إنكليزي

قلب الظلام

Jądro ciemności

Cuore di tenebra

Karanlığın yüreği ve Kongo günlüğü

A. Michael Matin

Cuore di tenebra. Ediz. integrale

La linea d'ombra

Recounts the psychological and physical sufferings and deterioration of Willems, a self-pitying wretch left by fellow Europeans to his own devices on an isolated Malayan island

An Outcast of the Islands

Conrad's aim was 'by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel . . . before all, to make you see' Heart of Darkness, his exploration of European colonialism in Africa and of elusive human values, embodies more profoundly than almost any other modern fiction the difficulty of 'seeing', its relativity and shifting compromise. Portraying a young man's first sea-voyage to the East in Youth, an unenlightened maturity in Heart of Darkness, and the blind old age of Captain Whalley in The End of the Tether, the stories in this volume are united in their theme - the 'Ages of Man' - and in their scepticism. Conrad's vision has influenced twentieth-century writers and artists from T. S. Eliot to Jorge Luis Borges and Werner Herzog, and continues to draw critical fire. In his stimulating introduction John Lyon discusses the links between these three stories, the critiques of Chinua Achebe and Edward Said, and the ebb and flow of Conrad's magnificent narrative art.

Youth/ Heart of Darkness The End of the Tether

Mörkrets hjärta av Joseph Conrad brukar kallas den bästa korta roman som någonsin skrivits på engelska. Joséf Konrad Korzeniowski [1857-1924], född i ryska Ukraina av polska föräldrar, gick till sjöss som sjuttonåring och slutade som kapten i engelska handelsflottan. Efter en svår febersjukdom bosatte han sig i England och började skriva romaner. En av dem blev en odödlig klassiker: Mörkrets hjärta [1902], baserad på Conrads förstahandserfarenhet av den europeiska exploateringen av Kongo. Conrad skickades faktiskt en gång själv uppför Kongofloden för att leta upp en landsman på en handelsstation djupt inne i landet  även om nu denne inte hette Kurtz; som kom att bli en av historiens mest oförglömliga fiktiva gestalter, förkroppsligad av Marlon Brando i Francis Ford Coppolas filmatisering av romanen. Mörkrets hjärta utgör en brygga mellan 1800-talet och modernismen. Som äventyrsberättelse närmar den sig en mångtydig natur hos teman som sanning, moral och ondska, filtrerad genom en röst vars pålitlighet som uttolkare av händelseförloppet blir en öppen fråga för läsaren. I översättning av Margaretha Odelberg.

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