Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad ( Book )
855 editions published between 1899 and 2011 in 29 languages and held by 6,997 libraries worldwide
Stripped of his seaman's license, convinced of his own cowardice, Jim sets out on a tragic and transcendent search for redemption.

Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad ( Book )
665 editions published between 1899 and 2011 in 30 languages and held by 6,740 libraries worldwide
A journey up the river in the Belgian Congo is also a journey into the darkest part of a man's soul.

Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard by Joseph Conrad ( Book )
400 editions published between 1904 and 2011 in 22 languages and held by 4,839 libraries worldwide
"Conrad's pessimistic worldview colors this novel depicting the brutality of Latin American politics and the tragedies that inevitably ensue."

Victory by Joseph Conrad ( Book )
311 editions published between 1900 and 2011 in 16 languages and held by 4,313 libraries worldwide
Swedish baron, Axel Heyst, rescues Lena, a young English musician, from the clutches of Schomberg, a brutish German hotel owner. Seeking refuge at Heyst's remote island retreat on Samburan, the couple is soon besieged by villains dispatched by the enraged hotelier. The arrival on the island paradise of these fiends sets off a terrifying series of events that ultimately ends in catastrophe.

The secret agent : a simple tale by Joseph Conrad ( Book )
406 editions published between 1900 and 2011 in 23 languages and held by 3,920 libraries worldwide
In turn-of-the-century London, an undercover, counter-revolutionary mole provokes a radical group he has penetrated into an act of violence that will bring about its own destruction.

The nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad ( Book )
381 editions published between 1896 and 2010 in 17 languages and held by 3,294 libraries worldwide
This account of the voyage of a sailing ship from Bombay harbour to the Port of London explores the psychological pressures on a group of nineteenth century seamen as they face the extemes of nature and the secrets and evasions of two of their comrades.

Almayer's folly by Joseph Conrad ( Book )
307 editions published between 1860 and 2009 in 18 languages and held by 2,947 libraries worldwide
The story of a European married to a Malayan wife who reverts to her ancestral savagery. The tragedy culminates when his beloved daughter marries a savage.

The rescue : a romance of the shallows by Joseph Conrad ( Book )
164 editions published between 1920 and 2010 in 11 languages and held by 2,678 libraries worldwide
"When Captain Tom Lingard sets sail towards the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, he expects an adventurous sea voyage. Instead he finds Mrs. Travels, a woman from an entirely different world with an independence of spirit that strikes a chord in Lingard's heart."

Under western eyes by Joseph Conrad ( Book )
238 editions published between 1910 and 2011 in 15 languages and held by 2,597 libraries worldwide
"First published in 1911, Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student of philosophy who is uninvolved in politics or protest. Against his will he finds himself caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing directed against the Tsarist authorities. He is pulled in different directions - by his conscience and his ambitions, by powerful opposed political forces, but most of all by personal emotions he is unable to suppress. Set in St. Petersburg and Geneva, the novel is in part a critical response to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, but it is also a startlingly modern book. Viewed through the Ẁestern Eyes' of Conrad's English narrator, Razumov's story forces the reader to confront the same moral issues: the defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny, the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society, and the demands thrown up by the interplay of power and knowledge." "This new edition is based on the English first edition text, and has a new chronology and bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.

The arrow of gold : a story between two notes by Joseph Conrad ( Book )
163 editions published between 1900 and 2010 in 9 languages and held by 2,564 libraries worldwide
Set in the 1870s, this tale concerns the love of an English sea captain for the Spanish beauty Dona Rita. He carries Carlist munitions to Peninsular ports, she finances the project. Conrad recounts all the adventures of gun-running and the ever-threatening sea, but never loses his theme, the beautiful and transitory nature of love. Conrad treasured this story, and explained it as a fragment from his "buried youth."