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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. A Set of Six II contains three stories including An Anarchista, Il Condea and The Duel, both satiric and deeply sad tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels...
| 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. The Rover is a novel of naval life in Napoleonic France. After forty years of piracy on Eastern seas, Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France, a country now ravaged and scarred by revolution and war. Looking for peace in which to end his days, he withdraws to a safe harbor in a remote farmhouse on Escampobar Peninsula, which looks out to the distant Mediterranean, where the...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
An Outcast of the Islands was only Conrad's second novel, but in its theme, in its impressionistic use of scenery, and, and over all, in the enormous richness and power of the writing, it predicts Conrad's position as a literary figure of the highest rank. Peter Willems, a clerk in Macassar, granted a "second chance" at a remote river trading post, falls ever more hopelessly into traps set by himself and others. A parable of human frailty, with love and death the major players, this is a story...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Romance is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. The novel was adapted into the fi lm The Road to Romance. Serafina is captured by Don Balthasar's pirates on a Caribbean island, when Jose Armando arrives from Spain to the rescue.
| Автор | Conrad Joseph, Hueffer Ford Madox |
| 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 |
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. An Outcast of the Islands is Conrad's second novel, but in its theme, in its impressionistic use of scenery, and in the enormous richness and power of the writing, it predicts Conrad's position as a literary figure of the highest rank. Peter Willems, a clerk in Macassar, granted a "second chance" at a remote river trading post, falls ever more hopelessly into traps set by himself...
| 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. A Set of Six contains six stories including Gas par Ruiz, an enthralling novel of inspirational rise from obscurity to light and The Duel, both satiric and deeply sad tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleonic Wars.
| 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. The Arrow of Gold is a story of a young sailor, the unnamed protagonist, who joins the champions of Don Carlos de Bourbon, pretender to the throne of Spain during the Carlist war of the early 1870s. The Car-lists 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...
| 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 stylist, both lush and precise, who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Typhoon is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a storm of incredible fury.
| 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. Chance is narrated by Conrad's regular narrator, Charles Marlow, but there are also some other narrators take up the story at different points. The novel is also unusual among its author's works for its focus on a female character, Flora de Barral. The narrators describe and attempt to interpret various episodes in the life of the Miss de Barral, the daughter of a convicted...
| 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. His story A Smile of Fortune is a masterly tale of misplaced loyalty, family feuds, and illicit bargaining. Embarking in the tropics, a ship's captain makes the instant acquaintance of a seemingly genial Mr. Jacobus and his...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
More than a century after its publication Heart of Darkness remains an indisputably classic text and arguably Conrad's finest work. Taking place mostly in Africa, it tells the story of Europeans going to the Congo in search of goods to bring back, mostly ivory. They do this in the name of "Imperialism", but Conrad makes it very clear from the beginning that there is no civilization creation going on. Through corruption and exploitation of the blacks, the Europeans gain as much ivory as they can....
| 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. A Set of Six I contains three stories including The Informeran, The Brutean and Gaspar Ruiz, an enthralling novel of inspirational rise from obscurity to light.
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
"The Shadow Line - a short novel based at sea - was first published in 1916. It depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of the title representing the threshold of this development. Conrad also extensively uses irony by comparison in the work, with characters such as Captain Giles and the ship's "factotum" Ransome used to emphasise strengths and weaknesses of the protagonist.
| 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. The stories contained in this volume take rank with the most mature and romantic of his works. The charming love and adventure of the life that he depicts in remote places confirm the growing belief that he is among the greatest of living creative writers. The story of The Nigger of the Narcissus have started when a black sailor with tuberculosis boards the ship Narcissus. The...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
A novel of naval life in Napoleonic France. After forty years of piracy on Eastern seas, Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France, a country now ravaged and scarred by revolution and war. Looking for peace in which to end his days, he withdraws to a safe harbor in a remote farmhouse on Escampobar Peninsula, which looks out to the distant Mediterranean, where the lovely Arlette lives with her aunt and the revolutionary Scevola. But the arrival of young Lieutenant Real calls Peyrol once again...
| 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. Collected Short Stories I contains two of the Conrad's most powerful, gripping stories, including Amy Foster - a classic story of a young foreign man who survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England.
| 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. Romance is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. Serafina is captured by Don Balthasar's pirates on a Caribbean island, when Jose Armando arrives from Spain to the rescue.
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |