Joseph Conrad - Böcker

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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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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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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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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This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) i...

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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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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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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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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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Dark allegory describes the narrator’s journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character deve...

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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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»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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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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'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 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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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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All discrepancies have been checked against the second English edition and the second American edition; the resulting Textual Notes include over 500 substantive changes. The text is thoroughly annotated, and the editor has added a "Glossary o...

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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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"Typhoon and Other Stories" is a collection of four shorter works by Joseph Conrad. In the title work "Typhoon" we have a classic tale of the sea which describes how Captain MacWhirr sails the Siamese steamer "Nan-Shan&quo...

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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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'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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Nostromo, the eponymous character, is charged with restoring some form of order, in a world where nothing is stable, and no one is without the potential to betray. Set in a South American mining town, this novel tells a tale of corruption and revo...

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A bold young English sailor has despised himself ever since an impulsive moment of cowardice. Jim moves East to Patusan, where natives worship him-and he may be able to find redemption...

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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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Chance was Conrad's most popular book. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, the abandoned daughter of a bankrupt tycoon, who struggles to achieve dignity and happiness. The revised edition features a new text (the English first edition), revised...

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Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier, to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea-captain faces a succession of crises on his first command, for which he feels h...

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'It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head'One of Conrad's most powerful, gripping storiesIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black ...

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Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn ...

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