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Typhoon : Little Black Classic by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'She's done for...' The crew aboard a ramshackle steamer faces a treacherous storm in this gripping tale, inspired by Conrad's own time at sea. This is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a tast ...Show more
Typhoon and Other Stories by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classic Fiction
In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In "Typhoon" Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and t ...Show more
Typhoon and Other Tales by Conrad, Joseph, Watts, Cedric, M.A. Ph.D. (Professor)
Category: Classic | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"Typhoon and Other Stories" is a collection of four shorter works by Joseph Conrad. In the title work "Typhoon" we have a classic tale of the sea which describes how Captain MacWhirr sails the Siamese steamer "Nan-Shan" into a typhoon. "Typhoon" excellently depicts sea-faring life at the turn of the 20t ...Show more
UNDER WESTERN EYES by CONRAD JOSEPH
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Under Western Eyes (1911) is a political thriller which takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. de P--, the brutal Minister of State, is assassinated by a team of two, but the bombs used claim the lives of his footman, the first assassin and a number of bystanders. When stude ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by P ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Under Western Eyesby Joseph Conrad"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in th ...Show more
Victory by Joseph Conrad
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Victory, don't forget, has come out of my innermost self.' Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. Sub-titled 'An Island Tale', it tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead father's nihilistic philosophy, has retreated from the world of commerce and colo ...Show more
Victory by Joseph Conrad
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The girl he had come across ...that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.' Damaged by his father's nihilistic philosophy, Axe ...Show more
Victory by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The girl he had come across ... that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.' Damaged by his father's nihilistic philosophy, Ax ...Show more
Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classic
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 operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when h ...Show more
Victory - An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
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 operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when h ...Show more