An intense, psychologically charged domestic drama, 'The Return' is a brilliant and haunting exploration of the insecurities that lie at the heart of human relationships.

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Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. The novel is counted as one of 100 best books of the 20th century.Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.Contents: Lord JimMemoirs & Letters:A Personal Record; or Some ReminiscencesThe Mirror of the SeaNotes on Life & LettersBiography & Critical Essays:Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh WalpoleJoseph Conrad by John Albert MacyA Conrad Miscellany by John Albert MacyJoseph Conrad by Virginia Woolf

Lord Jim

Au coeur des tenebres

Charles Marlow embarks on his first seafaring journey to the East as a young man on board the Judea, a barque headed towards Bangkok under the command of Captain John Beard. The Judea sets sail on a journey that is meant to take about 150 days, but bad luck and danger follow the vessel wherever she goes."Youth" is a semi-autobiographical short story based on author Joseph Conrad's own experiences aboard the ship the Palestine in 1882. Much of the plot and some of the characters, such as Captain Beard, were based on actual people and events. The narrator, Charles Marlow, serves as the protagonist in other of Conrad's works, including Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance. 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.

Youth

«Face à une avalanche noire et chaotique prête à rouler vers lui et l'ensevelir, face à une conception du monde lourde de mystère et de désespoirs, l'humanisme athée de Conrad résiste et s'arc-boute sur ses pieds comme Mac Whirr.» Italo Calvino

Typhon

" Il avait environ trente-cinq ans : il était droit et souple et avait l'allure dégagée d'un homme habitué à s'en aller à grandes enjambées par monts et par vaux. Ses cheveux châtain clair bouclaient autour de sa tête bien faite et sa barbe taillée court étincelait. Les yeux, comme s'ils brillaient de la lumière d'un feu intérieur, avaient dans leurs pupilles grises une lueur rouge qui communiquait une ardeur scrutatrice à la fermeté de leur regard. " Tom Lingard, que l'on a connu vieux dans La Folie Almayer puis en pleine maturité dans Un paria des îles, est ici un jeune homme, à l'aurore de son prestige sans cesse menacé. Ce grand roman de mer et d'amour, qui oppose les droits de la vie et le tribut de la mort, complète la " trilogie malaise " de Joseph Conrad. Il possède, selon André Gide, " la même noblesse désespérée, la même détresse morale " que Lord Jim.

La rescousse

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.

Angoisse

Joseph Conrad, Gaspar Ruiz, A Set of Six Traduction de Philippe Neel Les six nouvelles qui composent ce recueil furent écrites durant les années des plus grands chefs-d'oeuvre de Conrad - notamment Lord Jim et Nostromo. Qu'il décrive un épisode étrange de l'épopée napoléonienne (Le Duel) ou de la guerre d'indépendance au Chili (Gaspar Ruiz), qu'il s'attache au destin tragique d'un indicateur infiltré dans un groupuscule anarchiste (L'Indicateur) ou à la vie d'un bagnard en fuite dans un comptoir colonial isolé (Un anarchiste), Conrad met en scène des personnages typiques de son univers, aux prises avec une fatalité contraire, finalement victimes de leur propre force, de leur vaillance et peut-être de leur aveuglement. Ce volume comprend : Gaspar Ruiz - L'Indicateur - La Brute - Un anarchiste - Le Duel - Il Conte.

Gaspar Ruiz - A set of six

Il viaggio di Marlow lungo il fiume Congo alla ricerca del colonialista Kurtzdi cui si è persa ogni traccia. Lo ritroverà in fin di vita, ma in pieno delirio dionnipotenza, a capo di un regno i cui sudditi indigeni lo credono un Dio.

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