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Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford's collaborative work, The Nature of a Crime is a study of human psychology. Delving into the darkest recesses of human mind, they present idiosyncratic characters fighting with their own overwhelming desires and intuitions. The deep love of the protagonist gives way to even more profound desperation. The feelings of the protagonist, as life is crumbles around him, are expressed profoundly by the two authors.
| Автор | Conrad Joseph, Hueffer Ford Madox |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
"Гаспар Руис" - один из самых известных рассказов классика английской литературы Джозефа Конрада, в котором на глазах читателя разворачивается история молодого человека, решившего кардинально изменить свою жизнь и встать на путь к свету. Запоминающееся прекрасной ироничностью, это произведение наиболее полно отражает способность человека к самообману и остаётся актуальным в XXI веке.
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| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
It is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a storm of incredible fury. Captain Macwhirr has a reputation as a solid, steadfast man, who "having just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day, and no more" cannot fully believe any storm would be a match for his powerful ship. When the barometer and other clues begin to hint at trouble ahead, he is only moderately concerned and unwilling to change course and lose precious time-a decision that may prove...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemnation by a Court of Inquiry. In the wake of his disgrace he travels to the exotic region of Patusan, and as the agent at this remote trading post comes to be revered as 'Tuan Jim.' Here he finds a measure of serenity and respect within himself. However, when a gang of thieves arrives on the island, the memory of his earlier disgrace comes again to the fore, and his relationship with the people of...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
During the Carlist war of the early 1870s, a young sailor, the unnamed protagonist, joins the champions of Don Carlos de Bourbon, pretender to the throne of Spain. The Carlists use the eager youth's intense attraction to the sea to persuade him to run perilous enterprises for their cause, ventures he later learns have been financed by the beautiful mistress and heiress of a rich man's fortune.
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Conrad's unfinished novel that he was working on before his death in 1924, in which he returns to one of his favorite subjects: the French Revolution. Unlike Duel, his character here is a young Englishman named Cosmo Latham, who visits Genoa during the days in which Napoleon was imprisoned on Elba, where a conspiratorial environment of diplomats and spies of all colors pivot around the spectral figure of the exiled emperor. Among the many people that Cosmo meets, there he meets Madame de...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Portraying a young man's first sea-voyage to the East in Youth, 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.
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Joseph Conrad, was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.The stories contained in this volume take rank with the most mature and romantic of his work. The charming love and adventure of the life which he depicts in remote places confirm the growing belief that he is among the greatest...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Razumov unwittingly becomes embroiled in a revolutionary conspiracy when he gives refuge to a fellow student who assassinated a public official. Increasingly enmeshed in the radical's political intrigue, he betrays the anarchist who had placed blind faith in him. The authorities then dispatch Razumov on a mission to spy on the revolutionary's sister and mother. A fascinating character study, Under Western Eyes hauntingly reveals Razumov's preoccupation with questions of decency and...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Written at various times, under various influences, the four stories contained in Within the Tides are linked by Conrad's treatment of loyalty and betrayal. They range in setting from the Far East via eighteenth-century Spain to England. The tone shifts from the tragic inevitability of The Planter of Malata and the pathos of Because of the Dollars to the gothic The Inn of the Two Witches and the grim humour of The Partner. The form of the stories was experimental but does not obscure Conrad's...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. 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.
The novella is notable for its dual narrative structure.
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
These works are unique in Conrad's oeuvre in being openly autobiographical - but in scope and literary form they differ widely. In The Mirror Conrad explores his vast knowledge of the sea in an era when the sailing ship gave way, after thousands of years, to steam. A Personal Record is Conrad's account of himself, his cultural background, and the central motives in his life as a seaman and a writer separated from the country where he was born.
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Civil war rages between the native tribes of the Malay straits. Captain Tim Wingard sides with the Rajah Hassim.An English yacht blunders into this confusion and runs aground. When Wingard goes aboard to offer assistance, the crew gives him insolence, not gratitude. He prepares to leave...then sees a woman. She captivates him, literally holds him spellbound. It is a spell that soon wrecks all his hopes and leads to the failure of the important cause to which he is bound.
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". The events described in the novel are typical for political life in underdeveloped countries. The author takes up the problem of imperialism and its corrupting action even on the best people, which is the main character of the novel — the sailor Nostromo.
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Joseph Conrad's first novel Almayer's Folly is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism.
Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
Conrad established in Almayer's Folly the themes of betrayal, isolation, and colonialism that he would explore throughout the rest of his life and work.
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. His first novel Almayer's Folly is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Conrad established in Almayer's Folly the...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |