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With a note by the author.'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world'In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-07-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Youth
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'Then, on a fine moonlight night, all the rats left the ship.'Five men sit around a mahogany table, drinking claret. As the wine loosens their tongues, one tells a story from his youth, recounting the strange voyage of the doomed ship Judea. Inspired by Conrad's own...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-02-15

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‘Spookily topical’ Guardian Read the world’s first political thriller.London is under threat. It has...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Heart of Darkness
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TIM BUTCHERThe silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Life on the river is brutal and unknown threats lurk in the darkness. Marlow's mission to captain a steamer upriver into the dense interior leads him into...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-05-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Typhoon and Other Tales
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TYPHOON * FALK * AMY FOSTER *THE SECRET SHARER The four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad's experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. 'Typhoon' is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by tempest, and of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-08-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Lord Jim
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'To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be pronounced.' Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman - 'as unflinching...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-05-08

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'To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be pronounced.' Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman - 'as unflinching...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Au cœur des ténèbres
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Le capitaine Marlow raconte sa remontée d'un grand fleuve africain sur un vapeur, jusqu'au coeur des ténèbres, à la recherche d'une certain Kurtz...

Editeur : Brumes de mars
Parution : 2008

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Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo -- though one hundred years old -- says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-08-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Typhoon and Other Stories
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In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century.In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of...

Editeur : Penguin
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A haunting Modernist masterpiece and the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning film Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness explores the limits of human experience and the nightmarish realities of imperialism. Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer,...

Editeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Under Western Eyes
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'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-08-02

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Télécharger le livre :  The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' and Other Stories
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The volume includes: 'Youth'; 'The Secret Sharer'; 'The Lagoon'; 'An Outpost of Progress'; 'Il Conde'; 'The Duel'.The intention is a range of settings - we move from the sea to the colonial world, the Far East and Africa to England and then the Continent....

Editeur : Penguin
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This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-08-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Nostromo
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'I have heard no end of tales of his strength, his audacity, his fidelity...incorruptible! It is indeed a name of honour for the Capataz of the Cargadores of Sulaco.' One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo enacts the establishment of modern...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-06-14

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'I have heard no end of tales of his strength, his audacity, his fidelity...incorruptible! It is indeed a name of honour for the Capataz of the Cargadores of Sulaco.' One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo enacts the establishment of modern...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Secret Agent
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'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.' Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2004-03-11

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Télécharger le livre :  The Shadow-Line
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'A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt before or since.' link title to catalogue entry](exact date?)Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2003-11-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Chance
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'no consideration, no delicacy, no tenderness, no scruples should stand in the way of a woman ... from taking the shortest cut towards securing for herself the easiest possible existence' Chance(1914) was the first of Conrad's novels to bring him popular success and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2002-10-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Secret Agent
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In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent; communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2000-03-30

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