Une nuit dans les mers tropicales. Un jeune capitaine seul sur le pont d'un bateau endormi. Soudain, ruisselante d'eau, une main surgissant des ténèbres agrippe le premier échelon d'une échelle de corde qu'on a oublié de remonter...

Le passager secret

Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in "one of the darkest places on earth." Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.

A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.

Heart of Darkness

Plus qu'un roman d'aventures, Lord Jim est un récit initiatique et une sombre parabole sur le destin de l'empire britannique. Jim, l'idéaliste romantique, est dépossédé de son acte au moment même où il le commet et reste hanté par les rêves de l'illusion romanesque. Courage et lâcheté, solidarité et trahison s'enchevêtrent au point que tout jugement moral se brouille dans une irréalité où seules subsistent la solitude et la mort. Vacillant entre pulsion de mort et accomplissement sacrificiel, Jim est à la fois juge et accusé, coupable et victime, bouc émissaire et figure tragique. Dans un Patusan où le primitivisme de Conrad se colore de pessimisme post-darwinien, la jungle archaïque apparaît assez menacée par l'entropie et la barbarie. Par son tournoiement de témoignages et ses dislocations chronologiques, la narration devient un kaléidoscope où toute vérité absolue se dissout, annonçant les expérimentations modernistes et le montage cinématographique. La voix du narrateur Marlow ne peut alors que tâtonner dans une obscurité grandissante, laissant finalement le lecteur au «centre d'une formidable énigme».

Lord jim

Henry Whalley is a true sailor, earning years of experience as a ship's captain before his retirement. Faced with unexpected financial problems and a desire to help his married daughter earn her place in the world, Whalley is forced to sell his boat and buy his way back into service on a trade vessel. But Whalley is living so close to financial ruin that any small deviation from his course will put him over the edge .

The End of the Tether

Published posthumously in 1925, Suspense is set in Genoa in early 1815. This edition of Conrad's last novel, established through modern textual scholarship, presents the text in a form more authoritative than any so far printed. The introduction situates the novel in Conrad's career and traces its sources and contemporary reception. The explanatory notes explain literary and historical references, identify real-life places and indicate Conrad's main research materials. A glossary of foreign words and phrases enriches the explanatory matter, as do four illustrations and a map. A notebook of Conrad's research for the novel and deleted drafts are published here for the first time. The essay on the text and apparatus lay out the history of the work's composition and publication and detail interventions in the text by Richard Curle, who, as Conrad's de facto literary executor, saw the novel into print, along with typists, compositors and editors.

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"Nostromo" de Joseph Conrad. Ecrivain anglais d'origine polonaise (1857-1924).

Nostromo

In a rough-and-ready shop in Soho in Victorian London, Mr. Verloc lives a humble existence sustaining himself, his wife, her infirm mother, and her disabled brother, Stevie. But all is not as it seems with Mr. Verloc, a secret agent in the employ of a foreign government. When a plot to bomb Greenwich Observatory falls apart, Verloc's identity is exposed, and those closest to him must bear the burden of his failures. Harkening back to the writings of Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad's early masterpiece effectively explores themes of subversion, politics, and crime. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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