Author: Joseph Conrad

Follow a dark and powerful journey up the Congo River in Conrads sharp and incisive exploration of the damages of imperialism. Life on the river is...

Jim is a young seaman, who''s faced with a life or death scenario, and chooses self-preservation over the well-being of his unsuspecting passengers...

The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr Vladimir, the countrys ...

'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fe...

This edition includes a newly edited text based on the 1902 edition. Textual History and Editing Principles provides an overview of the controversi...

The Heart of Darkness is a powerful examination of the savage nature of western imperialism in the late 1890s. With stunning relevance to the polit...

On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most ...

When Charles Marlow travels to Africa to serve as steamboat pilot for an ivory-trading company, he learns he is to rendezvous with Kurtz, a trading...

A haunting critique of European colonialism in Africa, Heart of Darkness recounts Charles Marlows perilous expedition up the Congo River in search ...

Heart of Darkness is based upon Joseph Conrads own experience in the Congo; it is, as he remarks in his 1916 authors note to Youth: A Narrative and...