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Darker, weirder and shorter than its flashy younger brother Apocalypse Now, this modernist classic follows a riverboat captain and a reluctant assassin up the Congo River.

Around the figure of Nostromo, Conrad spins a story about revolution, politics, an racial conflicts as complex as Nostromo, the man whose greatest enemy is himself.

Alone on a tropical island, a Swedish baron and a beautiful violinist discover the long-lost joys of love.

"The wild folk in Pleasant Valley were whispering strange stories to one another. If the stories were true, they were most amazing.

In Victory (1915) Conrad returns to the Malay Archipelago, to the setting of his first mature novel, Lord Jim, and in Axel Heyst he creates a hero who is in many ways similar to Jim, a noble altrui

Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was the author of more than forty children’s books. “Mr.

The tale of a mortally ill man on a homeward bound ship and the effect he has on his ship mates.

Have you ever seen a LadyBug and wondered what the cute little bug with the dots on her back was thinking? And why she seemed in such a rush?

Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!

Mr.

This edition of Conrad's classic 1912 short story reprints the authoritative text of the 1924 Doubleday Edition together with five critical essays - all newly commissioned - that read "Th

One of Bailey's "Sleepy-Time Tales," this is the story of Timothy Turtle, a grumpy old turtle trying to live his life alongside Black Creek.

Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 - 1949) was author of more than forty children's books. Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newark Evening News: "Mr.

This volume in the series, Sleepy-Time Tales, follows the adventures of Master Meadow Mouse as he moves his home to various (safer) places, and tells how he cleverly avoids creatures such as Fatty