Joseph Conrad

No coração das trevas (1902) resulta da experiência pessoal de Conrad, no Congo, em 1890, e constitui uma das narrativas ficcionais mais complexas e extraordinárias de toda a literatura inglesa. A exemplo de Charlie Marlow, narrador principal da obra, Conrad, ainda criança, contemplara um...

Youth, although written over a century ago, is just as relevant to humans today and I believe for all time. Here Conrad addresses the dimming of our mortal light, that subtle realization in all of us that we are no longer as vital as we once were. That mark in time when we acknowledge to...

"Un socio" reúne una buena parte de las características de la obra de Joseph Conrad, si bien en esta ocasión el escenario no es una gran...

Verloc vive con su mujer, Vinnie, más joven que el, su suegra y su cuñado, que tiene algún problema mental....

Typhoon is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest and of the captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit....

This significant piece of literature by Joseph Conrad is a moody, symbolic narrative that follows Charles Marlow as he retells his early days as a steamboat captain on the Congo River....

Marlowe, un marinero, cuenta a sus compañeros, como consiguió trabajo de piloto y realizó un viaje por el río Congo....

Joseph Conrad’s multilayered masterpiece tells of one nation's violent revolution and one hero's moral degeneration. Conrad convincingly invents an entire country, Costaguana, and sets it afire as warlords compete for power and a fortune in silver. Señor Gould, adamant that his silver should...

Heart of Darkness is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa....

In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a grandly...

A journey into the unknown, where the wild river winds not only through an untamed jungle, but through the shadowed depths of the human soul.

In the shadows of London, a quiet shopkeeper is living a dangerous double life. Adolf Verloc appears ordinary—a husband, a small business owner, a man who keeps to himself. But behind the dusty windows of his shop lies a web of espionage, anarchists, and secret orders from foreign powers.

Conrad builds his story from the inside out, revealing a world of conspirators, police, fanatics, and bystanders whose inner lives are as explosive as any bomb they carry.

Charles Marlow recounts his adventures into the Congo and into the brutality of British colonialism...

Der Seemann Marlow erzählt von seiner Reise in das unerforschte Herz Afrikas, wo er auf den mysteriösen Mr. Kurtz trifft – einen einst idealistischen Kolonialisten, der von Macht und Wahnsinn verschlungen wurde.

Die Geschichte folgt dem jungen Seemann Jim, der nach einem Fehltritt an Bord der Patna mit Schuld und Ehre ringt. Als Erster Offizier verlässt er das Schiff in einem Moment der Angst – doch es geht nicht unter.

Sulaco, provincia immaginaria della repubblica di Costaguana, vive sotto il battito incessante della miniera di San Tomé: è da lì che prende avvio Nostromo, capolavoro assoluto di Joseph Conrad e una delle più grandi epopee del Novecento.

A gripping tale of espionage that influenced Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham and John le Carré, Under Western Eyes follows the story of Kyrilo Sidorovitch Razumov, an apolitical student who becomes a Czarist spy.

Con l'ascesa di Ribiera, gli equilibri si rompono e nuove minacce emergono: il generale Montero e suo fratello Pedrito guidano un colpo di stato che spinge il Paese sull'orlo del caos.

Embark on a haunting journey into the depths of the human soul with Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad’s timeless literary masterpiece. Narrated with gripping intensity by Luke Oldham, this novella follows Charles Marlow as he navigates the treacherous Congo River in search of the enigmatic...