Joseph Conrad

Captain McWhirr is a serious man who runs his steamer, the Nan-Shan, with efficiency and solidity. When a storm appears to be headed in their direction, MacWhirr is not concerned about his ship's ability to weather it, but, when the storm turns out to be a powerful typhoon which surges in across the Pacific Ocean headed straight for the Nan-Shan, MacWhirr and his crew must work together if they want to survive. This classic sea-faring story is believed to be based on author Joseph Conrad's real experiences at sea when he sailed aboard the John P. Best steamer under Captain John MacWhir.

The old officer with long white moustaches gave rein to his indignation. "Is it possible that you youngsters should have no more sense than that Some of you had better wipe the milk off your upper lip before you start to pass judgment on the few poor stragglers of a generation which has done and suffered not a little in its time." His hearers having expressed much compunction the ancient warrior became appeased. But he was not silenced. "I am one of them - one of the stragglers, I mean," he went on patiently. "And what did we do? What have we achieved? He - the great Napoleon - started upon us to emulate the Macedonian Alexander, with a ruck of nations at his back. We opposed empty spaces to French impetuosity, then we offered them an interminable battle so that their army went at last to sleep in its positions lying down on the heaps of its own dead. Then came the wall of fire in Moscow. It toppled down on them. "Then began the long rout of the Grand Army. I have seen it stream on, like the doomed flight of haggard, spectral sinners across the innermost frozen circle of Dante's Inferno, ever widening before their despairing eyes. "They who escaped must have had their souls doubly riveted inside their bodies to carry them out of Russia through that frost fit to split rocks. But to say that it was our fault that a single one of them got away is mere ignorance. Why Our own men suffered nearly to the limit of their strength. Their Russian strength

Das Herz der Finsternis ist eine der gro en klassischen Erz hlungen Joseph Conrads, einzigartig in ihrer Dichte, Symbolik und sprachlichen Kraft. Eingebettet in eine atmosph risch dichte Rahmenhandlung erz hlt der ehemalige Matrose Marlow von seiner Reise mit einem Flussdampfer den Kongo hinauf in das innere Herz Afrikas. Dort soll er im Auftrag der Kolonialverwaltung einen geheimnisvollen Mann namens Kurtz treffen, um den sich in der Heimat merkw rdige und beunruhigende Ger chte ranken. Kurtz, ein Mann mit gro en Talenten und gro em Charisma, hat sich in dieser Umgebung ver ndert, ist zu einem grausamen Despoten geworden, gef rchtet und abg ttisch verehrt zugleich. Es scheint die Frage auf, ob die europ ische Zivilisiertheit nur eine d nne H lle ist, durch Konvention und Selbstt uschung aufrechterhalten, die aber leicht zerbrechen und in Finsternis geraten kann. Die Erz hlung diente als Vorlage f r Francis Ford Coppolas Filmklassiker Apocalypse Now.

Der er kaos i en sydamerikansk republik: stridende politiske partier, guerillaer, konomiske magtspil - og ikke mindst et slagsm l om s lvminen San Tom , et materielt kraftcentrum. Midt i dette st r den italienske s mand Nostromo, der er leder af stevedorerne i havnebyen Sulaco, og rives rundt og griber ind i de store begivenheder. Men det slipper han ikke billigt fra ... I Nostromo bliver driften af en s lvmine i en sydamerikansk stat rsag til penge- og magtbeg r, revolutioner m.m. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) var en polsk-britisk forfatter og en vigtig forgangsmand inden for den moderne litteratur. Han har inspireret forfattere som Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald og Joseph Heller. Mange af Joseph Conrads romaner har v ret inspiration til popul re film. Francis Ford Coppolas filmklassiker "Dommedag nu" fra 1979 er baseret p Joseph Conrads "M rkets hjerte", Alfred Hitchcocks film "Sabotage" fra 1936 bygger p Joseph Conrads "Den hemmelige agent", og Ridley Scotts film "The Duellists" er baseret p Joseph Conrads "Duellen".

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness / Das Herz der Finsternis. Englisch Deutsch Zweisprachige Ausgabe. bersetzt von Ernst Wolfgang Freissler Entstanden 1899. Deutsche bersetzung von Ernst Wolfgang. Freissler. S. Fischer, Berlin 1926. Neuausgabe. Gro format, 210 x 297 mm Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2018. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

From that evening when James Wait joined the ship-late for the muster of the crew-to the moment when he left us in the open sea, shrouded in sailcloth, through the open port, I had much to do with him. He was in my watch. A negro in a British forecastle is a lonely being. He has no chums. Yet James Wait, afraid of death and making her his accomplice was an impostor of some character-mastering our compassion, scornful of our sentimentalism, triumphing over our suspicions. But in the book he is nothing; he is merely the centre of the ship's collective psychology and the pivot of the action. Yet he, who in the family circle and amongst my friends is familiarly referred to as the Nigger, remains very precious to me. For the book written round him is not the sort of thing that can be attempted more than once in a life-time. It is the book by which, not as a novelist perhaps, but as an artist striving for the utmost sincerity of expression, I am willing to stand or fall. Its pages are the tribute of my unalterable and profound affection for the ships, the seamen, the winds and the great sea-the moulders of my youth, the companions of the best years of my life.

This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.

A trav s de un personaje ficticio (el viejo marinero "Marlow"), Conrad describe una traves a por el r o Congo en busca del se or "Kurtz" que es el jefe de una explotaci n de marfil. El encuentro con Kurtz, ser la confirmaci n de la hip crita actitud colonialista y pone en tela de juicio su car cter de cruzada moral y comercial. El director de cine Francis Ford Coppola se bas en este breve relato para su pel cula Apocalypse Now, que si bien estaba ambientada en la guerra de Vietnam, manten a el esp ritu del relato de Conrad.

-D'autre fois, calme plat, grand miroir De mon desespoir.

Nostromo (full title Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard) is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Nostromo 47th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "I'd rather have written Nostromo than any other novel." Nostromo is often regarded as Conrad's best novel. Conrad set his novel in the mining town of Sulaco, an imaginary port in the western region of the imaginary country of Costaguana. The book has more fully developed characters than any other of his novels, but two characters dominate the narrative: Senor Gould and the eponymous anti-hero, the "incorruptible" Nostromo. A gripping tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion, set amid the mist-shrouded mountains of a fictional South American republic, employs flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men. Conrad's deep moral consciousness and masterful narrative technique are at their best in this, one of his greatest works.

James Wait is a dying West Indian black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus sailing from Bombay to London. Wait becomes seriously ill during the voyage, and his plight arouses the humanitarian sympathies of many of the crew. However, the ship's captain and an old sailor named Singleton remain concerned primarily with their duties to the ship and appear indifferent to Wait's condition. CuriousPages Edition This book is a CuriousPages edition, which has been edited by an experienced literary editor, then formatted to produce a book that is a pleasure to read. These editions are printed by CreateSpace (an Amazon company), which produces exceptional printing quality (of a higher quality than most trade paperbacks) at a reasonable price.

The Arrow of Gold is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1919. It was originally titled "The Laugh" and published serially in Lloyd's Magazine from December 1918 to February 1920. The story is set in Marseille in the 1870s during the Third Carlist War. The characters of the novel are supporters of the Spanish Pretender Carlos, Duke of Madrid. Curiously, the novel features a person referred to as "Lord X," whose activities as arms smuggler resemble those of the Carlist politician Tirso de Olaz bal y Lardiz bal, Count of Arbelaiz. The narrator of The Arrow of Gold has considerable involvement in the story and is unnamed. The principal theme is a love triangle which comprises the young narrator, Do a Rita and the Confederate veteran Captain Blunt. Do a Rita finances the operations of the narrator's vessel, Tremolino which smuggles ammunition to the Carlist army. Nautical operations are detailed in the Tremolino chapters of The Mirror of the Sea rather than in this novel. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Tales of Unrest is a collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad originally published in 1898. Four of the five stories had been published previously in various magazines. This was the first published collection of any of Conrad's stories..... Joseph Conrad (Polish pronunciation: born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, and Salman Rushdie. Many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, Conrad's works. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on, among other things, his native Poland's national experiences, and his personal experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world - including imperialism and colonialism - while profoundly exploring human psychology.

Romance is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. It was the second of their three collaborations. Romance was eventually published by George Bell and Sons in London in 1903 and by McClure, Phillips in New York in March 1904. According to Max Saunders, Conrad, in his quest to obtain a literary collaborator, had been recommended by several literary figures. W. E. Henley pointed to Ford as a suitable choice for Conrad. Literary collaboration was not particularly uncommon when Conrad proposed it to Ford, but neither was it considered the proper way for serious novelists, as Ford was aware: "The critics of our favoured land do not believe in collaboration." The novel was adapted into the film The Road to Romance. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Born in 1857 in Poland, Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30. In the intervening years he lost both parents, becoming an orphan at 11, being thereafter raised by an uncle, who let the boy go to Marseille at age 16, where he began to work on merchant ships - which at times included stints of gun running and the intrigue of political conspiracy. At age 36 his life turned from one of ships to one of literary pursuit. Conrad brought to English literature both a fresh layer of style and a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of works. He wrote many novels, which are correctly regarded today as some of the finest in English literature. Among their canon are Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Shadow Line, and of course Heart Of Darkness.

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 he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from detachment and isolation. Featuring arguably the most interesting hero created by Conrad, Victory is both a compelling tale of adventure and a perceptive study of the power of love.

Classic short story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk. The one exception is the loving, if dull-witted, Miss Foster.

Almayer's Folly, Joseph Conrad's first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Nadine Gordimer writes in her Introduction, "Conrad's writing is lifelong questioning . . . What was 'Almayer's Folly'? The pretentious house never lived in? His obsession with gold? His obsessive love for his daughter, whose progenitors, the Malay race, he despised? All three?" Conrad established in Almayer's Folly the themes of betrayal, isolation, and colonialism that he would explore throughout the rest of his life and work