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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.

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

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

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

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

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

The Nan-Shan was on her way from the southward to the treaty port of Fuchau with cargo 200 Chinese coolies on board.

1-PORTEUR DE MASQUES Amos Daragon, un brillant garçon de douze ans, devient malgré lui le premier élu de la nouvelle génération des porteurs de masques.

1- LA MALÉDICTION DE FREVIA En froid avec le dieu Odin, la déesse de la Fécondité, Freyja, jette une malédiction sur les béorites, le peuple favori de son ennemi.

1- VOYAGE AUX ENFERS Prisonnier des Enfers, le porteur de masques devra traverser l'Achéron, le fleuve du chagrin, le Styx, l'affluent de la haine, le Phlégéton, la rivière en flammes, le Cocyte, l

1- LA GRANDE CROISADE Maintenant en possession de la toison d'or, Barthélémy l'invisible lève une armée de chevaliers et part à la conquête du continent. Son but ?

Dans cette pièce de Louis Cyr, Bryan Perro nous plonge dans l'univers extravagant de ce Canadien français considéré comme l'homme le plus fort du monde.

Victor VIe est un pigeon voyageur hors de l'ordinaire.