Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad - Nostromo

Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political instability in Costaguana and its concomitant corruption, and puts his weight...

Ernst Pattynama and 11 more 17 hours 40 minutes

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General Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Chance

Apparently a two part story about a Damsel and a Knight, perhaps a damsel who depends upon the kindness of strangers. It was originally entitled «Dynamite» and first published by installments in the New York Herald....

James E. Carson 16 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim

A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young «simple and sensitive character» who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea — and of his expiation of that sin against his own...

Stewart Wills 14 hours 25 minutes

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General Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Victory: An Island Tale

Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific. After retreating from society in response to his professional failures,...

skoval 13 hours 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Under Western Eyes

Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment,...

Expatriate 11 hours 1 minute

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Outcast Of The Islands

An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vigar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable,...

Tom Weiss 10 hours 47 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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Joseph Conrad - Secret Agent

The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th Century. The novel centers...

Hugh McGuire and 11 more 9 hours 53 minutes

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Joseph Conrad - Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Version 2)

The Secret Agent tells the story of Adolf and Winnie Verloc. He is a phony anarchist and agent provocateur of the title, and the plot centres around the terrible consequences for their family when he is pressured into...

Cori Samuel 9 hours 50 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Mirror of the Sea

The Mirror of the Sea (collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines 1904-6 ), 1906 (Summary from Wikipedia)

Peter Kelleher 8 hours 6 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Almayer's Folly

A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love with the daughter. Conflict arises when other influences cause distrust in...

Kristel Tretter 7 hours 16 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Inheritors

The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It looks at society's mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the process....

John Burlinson and 4 more 7 hours 10 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Joseph Conrad - Tales of Unrest

Tales of Unrest (1898) is the first collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime. Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), a Polish-born English novelist, was a master in the formats of long short...

Sibella Denton and 5 more 7 hours 5 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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