Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language; though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world.
Books by Joseph Conrad
6 books available
Youth
by Joseph Conrad
3.7(2,566)
A young Marlow takes his first sea voyage to the East, facing the sea's power and his ship's fiery end, all while experiencing adventure and the realities of life.
Victory
by Joseph Conrad
3.9(3,256)
A reclusive idealist's quest for detached peace on a remote island shatters when his rescue of a vulnerable woman from a predatory world inadvertently summons a maelstrom of human evil and forces him to confront the very emotions he sought to escape.
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
3.4(414,628)
A journey up the Congo River shows how a brilliant ivory agent goes mad, revealing the harshness of European colonialism and human darkness.
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
3.6(18,626)
A Russian spy in London plans a disastrous anarchist bombing, exposing the dark ironies and widespread fear hidden beneath Edwardian society.
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
3.8(15,323)
In the South American republic of Costaguana, the longshoreman Nostromo, tasked with moving a fortune in silver during a civil war, eventually gives in to the corruption he first resisted, leading to his tragic end.
Under Western Eyes
by Joseph Conrad
3.7(2,712)
In 19th-century Russia, a student's betrayal of a revolutionary forces him to spy on the condemned man's family, all while struggling with his own conscience.