Author: Joseph Conrad

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...

'It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head'One of Conrad's most powerful, gr...

'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear,...

Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness has unsettled generations of readers with its haunting portrait of colonialism and the brutal exploitation of Afri...

This popular case-study of Conrad''s classic short novel reprints an authoritative text together with essays written from a range of contemporary c...