Böcker av Joseph Conrad

'Heart of Darkness' is Conrad's finest tale and tells of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet Mr Kurtz. This volume also includes 'An Outpost of Progress', 'Karain', and 'Youth' in a revised edition using the English first edition texts and...

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Klassikern Mörkrets hjärta finns här i nyöversättning av Einar Heckscher . Joseph Conrads roman har inspirerat många. I en oförglömlig vietnamfilm Apocalyps Now spelas den demoniske diktatorn Kurtz i djungelns inre av Marlon Brando. I denna boks e...

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A haunting Modernist masterpiece and the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning film Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness explores the limits of human experience and the nightmarish realities of imperialism. Conrad's narrator Marlow, a ...

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Joseph Conrad såg den europeiska exploateringen av Kongo med egna ögon: Han skickades en gång själv uppför Kongofloden, för att leta upp en landsman på en handelsstation djupt inne i landet - även om denne man inte hette Kurtz. Resans mål och gåta...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper ...

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»Ingen författare har kunnat förmedla själva auran av vår tids desorientering, såsom Joseph Conrad.« | Edward Said Joseph Conrad såg den europeiska exploateringen av Kongo med egna ögon: Han skickades en gång själv uppför Kongofloden, för att leta...

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Mörkrets hjärta av Joseph Conrad brukar kallas den bästa korta roman som någonsin skrivits på engelska. Boken har inspirerat många, inte minst filmskapare. I den oförglömliga vietnamfilmen, Apocalyps Now , spelas den demoniske diktatorn och europé...

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MÖRKRETS HJÄRTA (1899) är sedan länge Joseph Conrads mest lästa roman, oförminskat aktuell än i våra dagar. Den har inspirerat författare, serieskapare, bildkonstnärer, musiker och filmare. Den har tolkats på de mest olika sätt: som modernistiskt ...

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Klassikern Mörkrets hjärta finns i nyöversättning, av Einar Heckscher. Joseph Conrads bok har inspirerat många. I en oförglömlig vietnamfilm Apocalyps Now spelas den demoniske diktatorn Kurtz i djungelns inre av Marlon Brando. I denna boks extrama...

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Nostromo är en av Joseph Conrads märkligaste romaner, och räknas som ett av den gryende modernismens viktigaste verk. Den utkom 1904, under Conrads mest produktiva fas, då han nyligen lagt både Lord Jim och Mörkrets hjärta bakom sig. Handlingen ut...

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`The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.' At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat cap...

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Joseph Conrads roman Mörkrets hjärta i nyöversättning och med efterord av Christian Ekvall. Mörkrets hjärta är en av världslitteraturens mest lästa och beundrade romaner, en evig modern klassiker. Decennium efter decennium känns den lika smärtsamt...

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En odödlig klassiker, baserad på Conrads förstahandserfarenhet av den europeiska exploateringen av Kongo. » Mörkrets hjärta tillhör den typ av böcker som aldrig blir inaktuella. Den mest inträngande skönlitterära kritiken av kolonialismen.« | ANDE...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - ...

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This 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.

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This edition includes a newly edited text based on the 1902 edition. Textual History and Editing Principles provides an overview of the controversies and ambiguities surrounding Heart of Darkness. Included are background and source materials, and ...

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Although Polish by birth, Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) is regarded as one of the greatest writers in English, and Heart of Darkness, first published in 1902, is considered by many his "e;most famous, finest, and most enigmatic story."e;...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - w...

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Heart of Darkness" grew out of a journey Joseph Conrad took up the Congo River; the verisimilitude that the great novelist thereby brought to his most famous tale everywhere enhances its dense and shatteri...

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Den yttersta gränsen berättar historien om den åldrade och oförvitlige kapten Whalley som genom omständigheternas makt blir skeppare på en nergången fraktångare i Malackasundet. Vilka följder det kommer att få anar han inte. Med obeveklig konsekve...

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The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th Century. The novel centers on Verloc, a shop-owner, phony-a...

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This edition includes free audiobooks links. This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri] - Emma [Jane Austen] - Persuasion [Jane Austen] - Pride and Prejudice [Jane Aus...

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In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the hear...

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'I asked myself what I was doing there, with a sensation of panic in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and absurd mysteries not fit for a human being to behold'. Charles Marlow's dark intuition here arrives at the culminatio...

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Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk. The one exception is the loving...

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In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in ...

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'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the f...

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Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns h...

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Long hailed as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, Joseph Conrads tale of one mans descent into the mysterious and deadly Congo jungle to find a messianic ivory trader is a journey into the depths of mans own greed and quest for power....

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This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. T...

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