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Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acut…

Heart of Darkness (version 4)

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Joseph Conrad

In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small…

Nostromo (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad

In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a…

The Good Soldier (Version 2)

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Ford Madox Ford

First published in 1915, The Good Soldier might be characterised as a melodrama of English upper class infidelities, cut into little pieces,…

The Secret Agent (Version 3)

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Joseph Conrad

Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, Lond…

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 1: The Bastille (Version 2)

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Thomas Carlyle

Subtitled "The Bastille", Volume 1 of Thomas Carlyle's three volume "The French Revolution: A History" was first publish…

The End Of The Tether

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Joseph Conrad

At an age when he should, by rights, be embarking on a well-deserved and comfortable retirement, Captain Whalley, a sailor of the old school…

Some Do Not...

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Ford Madox Ford

Set immediately before and during the Great War, Some Do Not... is a tale of social cruelty among the English upper classes that pits real h…

Lord Jim (version 2)

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Joseph Conrad

While it's not often described as such, "Lord Jim" can be viewed as a kind of love story whose real theme is the close bond which …

The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes

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Joseph Conrad

In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to ru…

Almayer's Folly (Version 3)

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad was born in former Poland, spent part of his childhood exiled in Russia because of his father's Polish nationalist political a…

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 2: The Constitution (Version 2)

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Thomas Carlyle

The second volume of this famous and idiosyncratic history covers events from October 1789, after Louis XVI has been 'persuaded' to leave Ve…

The Rescue

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Joseph Conrad

"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan arc…

Tales of Unrest (version 2)

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Joseph Conrad

A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is …

No More Parades

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Ford Madox Ford

When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in tr…

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine

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Thomas Carlyle

Of this third, and final, phase of the French Revolution, including that period known as The Terror, Carlyle comments "It is unfortunat…

The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad

Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic repu…

A Set of Six

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Joseph Conrad

Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American…

A Personal Record

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Joseph Conrad

Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way thr…

'Twixt Land and Sea

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Joseph Conrad

While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place o…

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