books by Joseph Conrad     books:       Heart of Darkness9 reviews Joseph Conrad Prestwick House Inc., 2004 No fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil. Inconsequential story by another Marlow (Charlie) I was motivated to re-visit Conrad's early masterpiece by Sebald's Walk in Suffolk, which contains a bio chapter on Conrad with emphasis on his Congo experience, which was a traumatic one. Conrad had taken up the job of a skipper of a river steamboat, but he quit after a short time, in disgust with the colonial practices of the Belgians and their crude exploitation methods. Marlow is Conrad's ...             Heart of Darkness7 reviews Joseph Conrad Filiquarian, 2007 Literature as Philosophical Anthropology Conrad's novella contains an almost endless fount of symbolic allusions. One of the most important occurs early in the story and ties the symbolism of darkness, finitude, the mystery of the labyrinth and death to the images of the lunar cycle, the tide, yarn and narrative. "The yarns of seaman have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow ...             Heart of Darkness & Selections from The Congo Diary6 reviews Joseph Conrad Modern Library, 1999 "Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works I read this book for a graduate Humanities course. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 is a seminal work about the ills of colonialism, as well as a postmodern look at the subject of mankind. Conrad's book had a crucial influence on five important works of the twentieth century: J. G. Frazier's book The Golden Bough. Jessie L. Weston's book From Ritual to Romance, T. S. ...             Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer (Enriched Classics (Pocket))2 reviews Joseph Conrad Pocket, 2004 A Classic of British Literature Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a classic of British literature. Although Conrad was born in Russia-controlled Poland and did not become fluent in English until he was 21 years old, he demonstrates a tremendous mastery of the English language. Like many of his stories, Heart of Darkness is based on one of Conrad's own adventures (when he captained a steamboat down the Congo River). Heart ...             Heart of Darkness and Other Tales (Oxford World's Classics)12 reviews Joseph Conrad Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 "Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works I read this book for a graduate Humanities course. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 is a seminal work about the ills of colonialism, as well as a postmodern look at the subject of mankind. Conrad's book had a crucial influence on five important works of the twentieth century: J. G. Frazier's book The Golden Bough. Jessie L. Weston's book From Ritual to Romance, T. S. ...             The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)10 reviews Joseph Conrad Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 A Secret Agency Conrad still suffers today from the same pigeon-hole that his writing was pounded into during his own lifetime. He is still seen as harbinger of distant seas, of the exotic, the foreign. He is best known for Heart of Darkness, a book immortalized in pop culture by Francis Ford Coppola's retelling of this long, tormented short story as a Vietnam epic in Apocalypse Now. And yet, The Secret ...             Schaum's Outline of Italian Grammar (Schaum's Outlines)8 reviews Joseph Germano, Conrad J. Schmitt McGraw-Hill, 2007 Two corrections by the author, Joseph E. Germano Re: SCHAUM'S OUTLINE OF ITALIAN GRAMMAR, THIRD EDITION, 2007. While checking the accuracy of the book whose copies I have just received from McGraw-Hill, I have noticed three mistakes. The corrections are as follows: 1. The correct number of pages is 353 (not 330)! 2. On the front cover it is stated that there are 389 exercises with answers; NO: the exact number is 480 EXERCISES WITH ...             Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary (Penguin Classics)3 reviews Joseph Conrad Penguin Classics, 2007 "Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works I read this book for a graduate Humanities course. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 is a seminal work about the ills of colonialism, as well as a postmodern look at the subject of mankind. Conrad's book had a crucial influence on five important works of the twentieth century: J. G. Frazier's book The Golden Bough. Jessie L. Weston's book From Ritual to Romance, T. S. ...             Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)12 reviews Joseph Conrad W. W. Norton, 2005 "Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works I read this book for a graduate Humanities course. Buy this edition, it is the best with great critical essays. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 is a seminal work about the ills of colonialism, as well as a postmodern look at the subject of mankind. Conrad's book had a crucial influence on five important works of the twentieth century: J. G. Frazier's book The Golden Bough. ...             Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)379 reviews Joseph Conrad Dover Publications, 1990 Human Nature. This book is beautifully disturbing at how well it describes the fall of man to his primal state.             The Secret Agent: Centennial Editon (Signet Classics)68 reviews Joseph Conrad Signet Classics, 2007 Suspenseful & ironic: A Conrad classic Based on a true incident, Conrad tells the story of Verloc, the secret agent provocateur who is given the task of blowing up the Royal Observatory in London as a way of heaping scorn on anarchists in England. He sends his mentally deficient brother-in-law Stevie with the bomb, which blows up before he can reach the observatory. Stevie is annihilated and when Verloc's wife (Winnie) finds out what ...             The Shadow-Line: A Confession (Vintage Classics) Joseph Conrad Vintage, 2007 The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad’s later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow-Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the “shadow-line” between youth and maturity. This brief but intense story is a dramatically fictionalized account of Conrad’s first command as a young sea captain trapped aboard a becalmed, fever-wracked, and seemingly haunted ship. With ...             The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad FQ Publishing, 2007 The Secret Sharer is a popular early 20th century novel written by author Joseph Conrad. The story taking place at sea, is told from the perpsective of a young sea captain. Not knowing his crew ahead of time except for the previous night, he struggles to see if he can life up to the authorty role that is a must among captains. The Secret Sharer is a an excellent book for those who are interested in novels dealing with the sea and also those who ...             The Secret Sharer and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)11 reviews Joseph Conrad Dover Publications, 1993 Leggat = The Captain: True or False? In THE SECRET SHARER, Joseph Conrad posits an interesting choice for the Captain protagonist: should he follow maritime law and return a self-confessed murderer to his ship to face justice or should he allow his personal feelings to intrude and harbor a fugitive and let him escape? On the surface, this seems like a fairly routine choice, but in the world of Joseph Conrad no choices are ever easy. ...             The Mainstream of Civilization1 review Stanley Chodorow, MacGregor Knox, ... Wadsworth Publishing, 1994 A Breeze of a Read Often most of the details that were included within the book were unnecessary and could have been left out. My advice is not to buy the book but simply borrow it from a friend taking the same class.             The Portable Conrad (Penguin Classics)2 reviews Joseph Conrad Penguin Classics, 2007 Two Book Length Novels, Three Long Tales, Six Short Stories I was amazed to see that I am the first to review this classic book. I borrowed this book and brought it with me to read while helping deliver a yacht. The trip was a memorable one, for many reasons, not least among them was finishing "The Nigger in the Narcissus" a story of a dying black man's anger during last days of life aboard a ship, "Typhoon" the story of a steam trapped in a ...             Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Classics)72 reviews Joseph Conrad Penguin Classics, 2007 a master of the English language When I read Lord Jim for the first time as a teenager I found it boring. Many years later I now find it an amazing book. Conrad himself spent sixteen years at sea in the late 1800s, so this book is to some degree autobiographical. The version of this book that I have even quotes Conrad: "Every novel contains an element of autobiography." In this book, the protagonist, Jim, travels to a remote ...             Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions)37 reviews Joseph Conrad Dover Publications, 2002 Lord Jim Meets the Heart of Darkness [47] Protagonist Nostromo experiences the life which the author seeks for the reader to envy - or does he or she? Living amid the fictional South American country torn with civil war and military coup's strife, Nostromo works for foreign miners whose ill begotten gain is admonished by the countrypeople and the leaders of the coup. Eventually, even the loyal and most helpful to the English Nostromo ...             Typhoon and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)2 reviews Joseph Conrad Penguin Classics, 2007 No, not " The Perfect Storm" -- Better Typhoon and Other Short Stories -By Joseph Conrad ***** "She seemed, indeed, to have been used as a running target for the secondary batteries of a cruiser. A hail of minor shells could not have given her upper works a more broken, torn, and devastated aspect; and she had about her the worn, weary air of ships coming from the far ends of the world - and indeed with truth, for in her short ...             Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals3 reviews Alan Alexander, Carl Bowen, ... White Wolf Publishing, 2007 Superb Book, Some Mechanics Difficulties Those not familiar with Exalted, please seek out the Core Rulebook first. The Second Edition update of the Sidereals is a superb book, made much more readable, understandable, and enjoyable by the removal of information on Yu-Shan to the Compass of Celestial Directions book of the same name. 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