Books by Joseph Conrad

Suspense

by Joseph Conrad

Suspense is the final novel by author Joseph Conrad, best-selling and critically acclaimed author of "Heart of Darkness" and "The Secret Agent". Although left unfinished upon his death in 1924, this little-known work proves... See More

The Shadow-Line (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad)

by Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad's short novel The Shadow-Line: A Confession (1917) is one of the key works of early twentieth-century fiction. This edition, established through modern textual scholarship, and published as part of the... See More

Tales of Unrest (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad)

by Joseph Conrad

The five stories brought together in Tales of Unrest (1898) mark a turning point in the writer's career. Conrad's first short story collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft staking a claim to diverse... See More

THE END OF THE TETHER by Joseph Conrad author of An Outcast of the Islands; Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim; Typhoon; Romance; Nostromo; Romance; Chance; Victory; The Rescue (Annotated)

by JOSEPH CONRAD

(10 reviews)

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He was granted British... See More

Lord Jim - With Audio Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library

by Joseph Conrad

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. A hundred years ago a seaman's life was full of danger... See More

The Secret Agent (Oberon Modern Plays)

by Joseph Conrad

(1 review)

Secret terror cells, political conspiracy, police bungling, state-sponsored bomb plots... This is London, 1896. Inspired by Joseph Conrad's classic novel, The Secret Agent is theatre O's heartbreaking and hilarious chronicle... See More

The End of the Tether: "Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."

by Joseph Conrad

(10 reviews)

Born in 1857 in Poland, Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30. In the intervening years he lost both parents, becoming an orphan at 11, being thereafter raised by an uncle, who let the boy go to... See More

The Rescue (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Joseph Conrad

(37 reviews)

"The book is absorbingly interesting: dramatic, subtle, fascinating with allurement." ? The New York Times. Captain Tom Lingard is on his way to help his friends, a Malay prince and princess, reclaim their stolen land when... See More

The end of the tether

by Joseph Conrad

(10 reviews)

"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 shattering power... See More

End of the Tether

by Joseph Conrad

(10 reviews)

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The End of the Tether (Bridge Bilingual Classics) (English-Chinese Bilingual Edition)

by Joseph Conrad

(10 reviews)

The End of the Tether is the Polish-born British writer Joseph Conrad's novella masterpiece. This novella is first published in ¡°Blackwood Magazine¡±. It tells a story about an old captain who refuses to escape, and... See More

Victory: An Island Tale

by Joseph Conrad

(82 reviews)

This is a reproduction of a classic text optimised for kindle devices. We have endeavoured to create this version as close to the original artefact as possible. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with... See More

The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows (Illustrated)

by Joseph Conrad

(37 reviews)

"The Rescure: A Romance of the Shallows" is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published for the first time in 1920. The work, however, was completed with great difficulty: Conrad, in fact, began working on the novel in the spring of... See More

Lord Jim (Penguin English Library)

by Joseph Conrad

(4 reviews)

'A murmur of dismay and horror ran through the crowd at the sight of that familiar token. The old nakhoda stared at it, and suddenly let out one great fierce cry, deep from the chest, a roar of pain and fury, as mighty as... See More

Victory (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Joseph Conrad

(82 reviews)

"The world is a bad dog. It will bite you if you give it a chance," maintains Axel Heyst, a Swedish drifter in the Pacific islands. Heyst's attempt to remain aloof from the rest of humanity is challenged by his compassion... See More

The Brute

by Joseph Conrad

""She had three houses," he corrected, authoritatively. But Jermyn was not to be contradicted. "She had a house, I say," he repeated, with dismal obstinacy. "A great, big, ugly, white thing. You could see it from miles away... See More

Victory: "A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."

by Joseph Conrad

(82 reviews)

Born in 1857 in Poland, Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30. In the intervening years he lost both parents, becoming an orphan at 11, being thereafter raised by an uncle, who let the boy go to... See More

Youth, Heart of Darkness, The End of the Tether (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad)

by Joseph Conrad

'Youth', Heart of Darkness and 'The End of the Tether' make up Conrad's most celebrated collection of short narratives. Heart of Darkness forms its sombre centrepiece: set in the Congo of the 1890s, this haunting and widely... See More

The Secret Agent (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Joseph Conrad

(1 review)

In the back streets of nineteenth-century London, a group of revolutionaries plot an incident intended to turn English complacency on its ear. Their objective: the destruction of one of the nation's proudest monuments of... See More

The Inheritors (TREDITION CLASSICS)

by Joseph Conrad

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again... See More

Notes on Life and Letters (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad)

by Joseph Conrad

The twenty-six essays collected in Notes on Life and Letters (first published 1921) offer a kaleidoscopic view of Joseph Conrad's literary views and interest in the events of his day, including the Titanic disaster, First... See More

An Anarchist

by Joseph Conrad

(1 review)

"This was the tone in which Mr. Harry Gee, the manager of the cattle station, alluded to my pursuits. He seemed to consider me the greatest absurdity in the world. On the other hand, the B. O. S. Co., Ltd., represented to... See More

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 4 (Golden Deer Classics)

by Golden Deer Classics

(10 reviews)

This book,contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By... See More

'Twixt Land and Sea (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad)

by Joseph Conrad

(1 review)

New texts of Joseph Conrad's modern classic 'The Secret Sharer' and of two other tales appear in this edition of 'Twixt Land and Sea with numerous words, sentences, and entire paragraphs restored from Conrad's manuscripts... See More

Last Essays (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad)

by Joseph Conrad

Bringing together work composed from 1890 to 1924, the nineteen pieces collected in the posthumously published Last Essays (1926) serve as a primer to Conrad's wide interests and to the varieties of his style. This edition... See More

The ARROW of GOLD A STORY BETWEEN TWO NOTES , Edition illustrated

by Joseph Conrad

(9 reviews)

Joseph Conrad was a Polish novelist who lived most of his life in Britain and didn't learn English until age 21. The young Conrad lived an adventurous life involving gunrunning and political conspiracy, and apparently had a... See More

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

(251 reviews)

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the... See More

An Outcast of the Islands (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Joseph Conrad

(18 reviews)

Peter Willems is down on his luck. The Dutch clerk has been fired for embezzlement from his job in the Indonesian port city of Makassar, and his scornful wife has abandoned him. Willems' despair lifts after an encounter with... See More

Within the Tides, Tales

by Joseph Conrad

Within the Tides, Tales by Joseph Conrad. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1916 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes. See More

A Set of Six

by Joseph Conrad

(1 review)

"The six stories in this volume are the result of some three or four years of occasional work. The dates of their writing are far apart, their origins are various. None of them are connected directly with personal... See More