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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.

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.