Author: Joseph Conrad

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...

Whenever two Russians come together, the shadow of autocracy is with them...haunting the secret of their silences.'First published in 1911, Under...

'(Conrad) thought of civilised and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might...

The Children of the Sea (1897) is a novella by Joseph Conrad. The story originally appeared with a title featuring a racial slur, a subject of cont...

Romance (1903) is a novel by Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad. One of just three collaborations between two of the greatest English language novel...

Captain MacWhirr cannot fathom anything outside the facts of his own life. His first mate, Mr. Jukes, is the perfect contrast as an imaginative man...

Featuring five works of short fiction from the critically acclaimed author, Joseph Conrad, Tales of Unrest is a fascinating exploration of human s...

Giovanni Battista Fidanza, also known as Nostromo, is a revered seaman who is asked to smuggle a shipment of silver out of a war-torn country. Desp...

Raised by a single Swedish philosopher, Axel Heyst inherits his father''s pessimistic view of society. As a child, he is taught about all the dark ...

Growing up as an orphan, Razumou adopted the belief that all of Russia was his family, a sentiment that he carries into his higher education. Becau...

This Norton Critical Edition offers the first English book edition of the novel (1907), with explanatory footnotes. Accompanying this are contempor...

This deeply atmospheric rendering of Conrads classic dees colonial trader, Marlow, recount his journey into the heart of Africa and his discovery o...

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 o...