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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz- dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, w ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradIn Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the lo ...Show more
Heart of Darkness & Other Stories by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colon ...Show more
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explo ...Show more
Three Sea Stories: Typhoon, Falk, the Shadow-line by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance a ...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
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