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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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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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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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On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant i...

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Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford. First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping...

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One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo enacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. This edition offers new insights into Conrad's masterpiece.

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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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De självbiografiska texterna av Joseph Conrad är synnerligen sparsamma till antalet. Om sin person och sitt liv skrev författaren mycket lite. De romaner och noveller han utgav rymmer å andra sidan åtskillig information om Conrad, fast i indirekt ...

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Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness has unsettled generations of readers with its haunting portrait of colonialism and the brutal exploitation of African lives. Peter Kupers graphic adaptation reimagines this masterpiece for a new generation. Illustr...

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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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The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton in Penguin Classics. In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of huma...

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Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo -- though one hundred years old -- says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic...

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Mr Verloc, the secret agent, is involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory which goes disastrously wrong. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a critical introduction whi...

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'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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Sinister and incisive, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad has retained the fascination of readers and scholars alike. It is accompanied here by the stories with which it has been published since 1902: the autobiographical Youth, and the tale of an...

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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, ra...

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Acclaimed illustrator Peter Kuper delivers a visually immersive and profound adaptation of Joseph Conrads controversial classic that doesnt just retell the book [but] destabilizes it, forcing a reconsideration (Etelka Lechoczy, NPR). Longtime admi...

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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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Lord Jim is a book about courage and cowardice, self-knowledge and personal growth, in the exotic setting of post-colonial Patusan, a remote Malay settlement. This new edition uses the first English edition text and includes a new introduction and...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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lassic Conrad short stories, including: The Warrior's Soul, Prince Roman, The Tale, The Black Mate. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Conrad (1857 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelist...

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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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Tre klassiska berättelser till sjöss. En ung kapten känner sig som en främling ombord på sitt skepp ser en natt en förrymd fånge simma naken intill skeppet. En annan skeppskapten stiger i land i tropikerna och blir vän med två bröder. Samt en roma...

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"I Mörkrets hjärta tvingar Joseph Conrad oss att fundera över vad vi är och vilka vi blir i en utsatt situation. Vad är sanning, ondska och moral? Det är eviga frågor som vi alla har nytta av att tänka på. Ofta. I mitt eget konstnärskap har jag ha...

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"När mr Verloc gick ut på morgonen överlämnade han nominellt sin butik i svågerns händer." I slutet av 1800-talet genomförde en grupp anarkister ett bombattentat mot Greenwichobservatoriet utanför London. Den händelsen utgör den yttre ha...

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Conrad's foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest novel, Nostromo - though over one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest r...

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Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpret...

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