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The Secret Agent (Heroes and Villains) by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Heroes and Villians Ser.
London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such terrorist is Verloc. He is the secret agent who is given the mission to str ...Show more
The Secret Agent (Penguin pocket classics) by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.'In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the ...Show more
The Secret Sharer and Other Stories by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics
This is a wonderful volume of Conrad's short fiction, reissued alongside the new film The Secret Sharer. This volume of Conrad's short works explores a vast array of human experience in a variety of settings across the globe, from the sea to the colonial world, from the Far East and Africa to Europe. 'T ...Show more
The Shadow-Line - A Confession by Joseph Conrad; Jacques Berthoud (Notes by, Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
'A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt before or since.'Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his f ...Show more
To-Morrow: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 64 by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics
'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, gripping stories. Set in a desolate English port, this is a spare, savage turn-of-the-century story of lives haunted by the sea. Introducing Little Black ...Show more
Typhoon : Little Black Classic by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | 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
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Category: Classics
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)
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Category: Classics | 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 Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"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
Victory by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | 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: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad
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Category: 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