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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 …

Chance (version 2)

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Joseph Conrad

"You are the expert in the psychological wilderness," the nominal narrator of this engaging tale says at one point to Marlow, who …

Tales of Hearsay

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Joseph Conrad

In the time of Napoleon, a thoughtful and romantic young Russian officer finds himself asked to do something unthinkable. In 1868, a Polish …

The Rover (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad

Possessed "of a passion weary of itself", elderly ex-privateer Peyrol is driven by "a sudden impulse of scorn, of magnanimity…

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 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 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…

Typhoon and Other Stories

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Joseph Conrad

An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…

Within The Tides

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Joseph Conrad

A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…

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…

'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…

The Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad

"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages,…

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…

An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad

This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional ten…

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…

Lenore

In The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 01, The Christian Roman Empire and the F…

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John Bagnell Bury

Volume 1: The Christian Roman Empire and the Foundation of the Teutonic Kingdoms "The present work is intended as a comprehensive accou…

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In The Castle of Twilight

In The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 01, The Christian Roman Empire and the F…