Joseph Conrad

Published in 1915, Victory: An Island Tale holds a special place in Conrad's later writings as a bold experiment in genre. The novel variously draws upon realism, allegory and melodrama to explore large themes: commitment and solidarity, the individual's relationship to society and the power of love. The Introduction situates the novel in Conrad's career and traces its sources and contemporary reception. The essay on the text and the apparatus lay out the history of the work's composition and publication, and detail the extensive interventions by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors. Also included are notes explaining literary and historical references, a glossary of nautical terms, illustrations including pictures of early drafts, and appendixes. Established through modern textual scholarship, this edition of Victory presents the novel in a form more authoritative than any so far printed, and restores a text that has circulated in highly defective forms since its original publication.

Albert Savarus est un roman d'Honor de Balzac paru en 1842 en feuilleton dans Le Si cle, class dans les Sc nes de la vie priv e de La Com die humaine. Le jeune monsieur de Soulas ne pouvait pas se dispenser d'avoir un tigre. Ce tigre tait le fils d'un de ses fermiers, un petit domestique g de quatorze ans, trapu, nomm Babylas. Le lion avait tr s-bien habill son tigre?: redingote courte en drap gris de fer, serr e par une ceinture de cuir verni, culotte de panne gros-bleu, gilet rouge, bottes vernies et revers, chapeau rond bourdaloue noir, des boutons jaunes aux armes des Soulas. Am d e donnait ce gar on des gants de coton blanc, le blanchissage et trente-six francs par mois, la charge de se nourrir, ce qui paraissait monstrueux aux grisettes de Besan on?: quatre cent vingt francs un enfant de quinze ans, sans compter les cadeaux? Les cadeaux consistaient dans la vente des habits r form s, dans un pourboire quand Soulas troquait l'un de ses deux chevaux, et la vente des fumiers. Les deux chevaux, administr s avec une sordide conomie, co taient l'un dans l'autre huit cents francs par an. Le compte des fournitures Paris en parfumeries, cravates, bijouterie, pots de vernis, habits, allait douze cents francs. Si vous additionnez groom ou tigre, chevaux, tenue superlative, et loyer de six cents francs, vous trouverez un total de trois mille francs. Or, le p re du jeune monsieur de Soulas ne lui avait pas laiss plus de quatre mille francs de rentes produits par quelques m tairies assez ch tives qui exigeaient de l'entretien, et dont l'entretien imprimait une certaine incertitude aux revenus. A peine restait-il trois francs par jour au lion pour sa vie, sa poche et son jeu

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born J zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.

La l nea de sombra, es una novela corta basada en el mar de Joseph Conrad; es uno de sus ltimos trabajos, que se escribe de febrero a diciembre de 1915. La novela describe el desarrollo de un joven al tomar una capitan a en el Oriente, con la l nea de sombra del t tulo que representa el umbral de este desarrollo. Cuenta los avatares de un inexperto capit n que se hace cargo de un barco por vez primera, teniendo que afrontar las numerosas dificultades y contratiempos que surgen durante la traves a por los mares del Sur. Esta novela se caracteriza por su doble estructura narrativa. El, t tulo completo del subt tulo de la novela es la "Sombra-Line, una confesi n", alerta inmediatamente al lector a la naturaleza retrospectiva de la novela.

Heart of Darkness is written by Joseph Conrad one of the Worlds best writers of the English Language. It features the journey of Marlow, the Captain of a Boat, operated by a Belgian Company, traveling down the Congo in search of Kurtz, a man with an enigmatic and great reputation. Yet during his journey, Marlow witnesses the cruelty and squalor the local Natives are subjected to by the Company that hired him. It is both a journey into the heart of the Congo, and a journey into the heart of human nature.

Since the publication of the Cambridge edition of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, the numerous letters in the nine volumes, many of them published for the first time and many more taken from hard-to-find books and journals, have had a profound influence on writing about Conrad. This selection makes the highlights available in one volume. The letters have been re-edited with shorter footnotes and an emphasis on the latest scholarship. Letters originally written in French or Polish appear only in revised English translations. Among the topics that stand out are Conrad's memories of growing up in Poland and Ukraine, his ideas about fiction, often expressed in precise but sympathetic comments on the work of his friends, the anxieties of war and revolution, his struggle to keep his integrity as a writer, and his lives as a sailor and a family man.