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Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Nigger of the Narcissus written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0679641254
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Lord Jim and Nostromo written by Joseph Conrad and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as two of the 100 best novels of all time Nostromo Originally published in 1904, Nostromo is considered by many to be Conrad's supreme achievement. Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, the novel reveals the effects of unbridled greed and imperialist interests on many different lives. Although each character's potential for good is ultimately corrupted, Nostromo underscores Conrad's belief in fidelity, moral discipline, and the need for human communion. The author himself described the book as 'an intense creative effort on what I suppose will remain my largest canvas.' 'Conrad endeavored to create a great, massive, multiphase symbol that would render his total vision of the world, his sense of individual destiny, his sense of man's place in nature, his sense of history and society,' observed Robert Penn Warren. 'Nostromo is the most strikingly modern of Conrad's novels,' said V. S. Pritchett. 'It is pervaded by a profound, even morbid sense of insecurity which is the very spirit of our age.' This volume is the companion to the acclaimed multipart series aired on Masterpiece Theatre. Lord Jim Lord Jim is a classic story of one man's tragic failure and eventual redemption, told under the circumstances of high adventure at the margins of the known world which made Conrad's work so immediately popular. But it is also the book in which its author, through a brilliant adaptation of his stylistic apparatus to his obsessive moral, psychological and political concerns, laid the groundwork for the modern novel as we know it.
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 037575489X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Lord Jim & Nostromo written by Joseph Conrad and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2000-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as two of the 100 best novels of all time WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN COMMENTARY BY VIRGINIA WOOLF, HAROLD BLOOM, EDWARD SAID, F. R. LEAVIS, AND ROBERT PENN WARREN " Never were Mr. Conrad's felicity of phrase and charm of atmosphere more obvious. . . . A book of the rare literary quality of Lord Jim is something to receive with gratitude and joy."--The New York Times Originally published in 1900, Lord Jim is one of Joseph Conrad's most complex literary masterpieces. The story of a young sailor whose moment of cowardice haunts him for the rest of his life, Lord Jim explores Conrad's lifelong obsessions with the nature of guilt and the possibility of redemption. Nostromo is considered by many to be Conrad's supreme achievement, and Conrad himself referred to Nostromo as his "widest canvas." Set in the fictitious South American republic of Costaguana, Nostromo reveals the effects that misguided idealism, unparalleled greed, and imperialist interests can have on a fledging nation. V. S. Pritchett wrote: "Nostromo is the most strikingly modern of Conrad's novels. It is pervaded by a profound, even morbid sense of insecurity which is the very spirit of our age." Robert D. Kaplan's Introduction explains why the two novels together form Conrad's darkest glimpse into the flawed nature of humankind. JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) grew up amid political unrest in Russian-occupied Poland. After twenty years at sea in the French and British merchant navies, he settled in England in 1894. Over the next three decades, he revolutionized the English novel with works such as Youth (1902), Heart of Darkness (1902), Typhoon (1903), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1913), and Victory (1915). ROBERT D. KAPLAN is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and the author of seven books of travel and foreign affairs that have been translated into a dozen languages, including Balkan Ghosts, The Ends of the Earth, and An Empire Wilderness, all bestsellers, and a collection of essays, The Coming Anarchy. He lectures frequently to the U.S. military.
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393963359
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Lord Jim written by Joseph Conrad and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Norton Critical Edition provides the most authoritative text of Lord Jim yet published; it is based on the definitive third English edition, collated with the periodical version that appeared in Blackwood s Magazine and with the first English edition."
Author : Cedric Thomas Watts
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140180923
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Lord Jim written by Cedric Thomas Watts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1989 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Englishman branded as a coward seeks personal redemption for an act of selfishness
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521839959
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Lord Jim (Illustrated) written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel "Lord Jim" is recognized as Joseph Conrad's best work. But what does the author think? Here is a quote from his preface to one of the editions of the novel:" I have been asked at times whether this was not the book of mine I liked best. I am a great foe to favouritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works. As a matter of principle I will have no favourites; but I don't go so far as to feel grieved and annoyed by the preference some people give to my Lord Jim''.Pretty illustrations provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.Illustrated by Andronum.
Author : Maya Jasanoff
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698137477
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Dawn Watch written by Maya Jasanoff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le Carré Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017 A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrad’s destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaya to Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world. Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in England as an author. He saw the surging, competitive "new imperialism" that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places “beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,” and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals. In a compelling blend of history, biography, and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works—The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling, and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spell-binding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world—and through it to our own.
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Lord Jim written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780553210279
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Lord Jim written by Joseph Conrad and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1981 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This immortal novel of the sea tells the story of a British sailor haunted by a single youthful act of cowardly betrayal. To the white men in Bombay, Calcutta, and Rangoon, Jim is a man of mystery. To the primitive natives deep in the Malayan jungle, he is a god gifted with supernatural powers. To the beautiful half-caste girl who flees to his hut for protection, he is a lord to be feared and loved. Lord Jim-- Conrad' s classic portrait of a man' s guilt, his search for forgiveness, and his final, tragic redemption-- is a work of enduring value and one of the world' s great masterpieces.
Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466868309
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Balkan Ghosts written by Robert D. Kaplan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as "the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date" (The Boston Globe), Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic. This new edition of Balkan Ghosts includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between 1996 and 2000 beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo war, with the removal of Slobodan Milosevic from power.
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781515319542
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Lord Jim written by Joseph Conrad and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic novel by the great Polish-English author Joseph Conrad has been specially edited and formatted by Bishopston Publications in 10 point Book Antiqua for optimum reading pleasure.
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981472321
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (723 download)
Download or read book Lord Jim written by Joseph Conrad and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with himself and his past. When this novel first appeared in book form a notion got about that I had been bolted away with. Some reviewers maintained that the work starting as a short story had got beyond the writer's control. One or two discovered internal evidence of the fact, which seemed to amuse them. They pointed out the limitations of the narrative form. They argued that no man could have been expected to talk all that time, and other men to listen so long. It was not, they said, very credible. After thinking it over for something like sixteen years, I am not so sure about that. Men have been known, both in the tropics and in the temperate zone, to sit up half the night 'swapping yarns'. This, however, is but one yarn, yet with interruptions affording some measure of relief; and in regard to the listeners' endurance, the postulate must be accepted that the story was interesting.
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Lord Jim-(Annotated) written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim.
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781393291
Total Pages : 1092 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Joseph Conrad Collection Including written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is considered to be one of the great novelists in English. His novels often have a nautical setting and his characters suffer trials in the midst of an indifferent universe. His masterful prose is second to none and his Polish background brings a romantic or tragic style that was previously unknown in English novels. The "Heart of Darkness" is a true classic. A small book but every word is powerfully and perfectly placed. It is a dark allegory full of suspense, adventure, character development and psychological drama. The story is told by Marlow who on his journey up the Congo meets and becomes fascinated with Mr Kurtz who dominates the local people. This is considered to be Conrad's greatest and most enigmatic story. The" Secret Agent" is a piercing sociological evaluation of the entire culture of the western world and the many flawed sub-cultures that emerge from it. Set in London, each group has an anti-hero who epitomises the problems with a culture that is entirely based on self-interest. There is a broken time line in the novel that heightens the mystery of the identity of the tragic victim who dies early on in the story. "Lord Jim" is a sea-faring tale, but more than that is it a story of Jim's lifelong efforts to atone for an act of instinctive cowardice. This then became the classic tale that gave birth to a new genre of literature. "Nostromo" is another sea-faring epic and a complex tale of colonial life in Latin America. In this book there are flashbacks, people telling stories within stories which adds both to the complexity and the depth. The tale draws you in with a sense of foreboding as the lure of silver, greed, capitalist exploitation and rebellion evolve. "Victory" centers around the character Axel Heyst, a complex character who wishes to cut himself off from people to avoid suffering. He settles on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago. However, he is hated and misunderstood by the evil innkeeper Schomberg and then rescues a young English woman, Lena. The take is one of adventure and complex relationships, but ultimately about the incredible healing power of love.
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Under western eyes written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book victory written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804153493
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book An Empire Wilderness written by Robert D. Kaplan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having reported on some of the world's most violent, least understood regions in his bestsellers Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth, Robert Kaplan now returns to his native land, the United States of America. Traveling, like Tocqueville and John Gunther before him, through a political and cultural landscape in transition, Kaplan reveals a nation shedding a familiar identity as it assumes a radically new one. An Empire Wilderness opens in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the first white settlers moved into Indian country and where Manifest Destiny was born. In a world whose future conflicts can barely be imagined, it is also the place where the army trains its men to fight the next war. "A nostalgic view of the United States is deliberately cultivated here," Kaplan writes, "as if to bind the uncertain future to a reliable past." From Fort Leavenworth, Kaplan travels west to the great cities of the heartland--to St. Louis, once a glorious shipping center expected to outshine imperial Rome and now touted, with its desolate inner city and miles of suburban gated communities, as "the most average American city." Kaplan continues west to Omaha; down through California; north from Mexico, across Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas; up to Montana and Canada, and back through Oregon. He visits Mexican border settlements and dust-blown county sheriffs' offices, Indian reservations and nuclear bomb plants, cattle ranches in the Oklahoma Panhandle, glacier-mantled forests in the Pacific Northwest, swanky postsuburban sprawls and grim bus terminals, and comes, at last, to the great battlefield at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where an earlier generation of Americans gave their lives for their vision of an American future. But what, if anything, he asks, will today's Americans fight and die for? At Vicksburg Kaplan contemplates the new America through which he has just traveled--an America of sharply polarized communities that draws its population from pools of talent far beyond its borders; an America where the distance between winners and losers grows exponentially as corporations assume gov-ernment functions and the wealthy find themselves more closely linked to their business associates in India and China than to their poorer neighbors a few miles away; an America where old loyalties and allegiances are vanishing and new ones are only beginning to emerge. The new America he found is in the pages of this book. Kaplan gives a precise and chilling vision of how the most successful nation the world has ever known is entering the final, and highly uncertain, phase of its history.
