Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE ARROW OF GOLD–A STORY BETWEEN TWO NOTES FIRST NOTE The pages which follow have been extracted from a pile of manuscript which was apparently meant for the eye of one woman only. She seems to have been the writer’s childhood’s friend. They had parted as children, or very
Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad
SOME REMINISCENCES by Joseph Conrad A Familiar Preface. As a general rule we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little friendly pressure. I defended myself with some spirit; but, with characteristic tenacity, the friendly voice insisted: “You
Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad
This etext was prepared by David Price ccx074@coventry.ac.uk, from the 1921 J. M. Dent edition. Notes on Life & Letters by Joseph Conrad Contents: Author’s note PART I–Letters BOOKS–1905. HENRY JAMES–AN APPRECIATION–1905 ALPHONSE DAUDET–1898 GUY DE MAUPASSANT–1904 ANATOLE FRANCE–1904 TURGENEV–1917 STEPHEN CRANE–A NOTE WITHOUT DATES–1919 TALES OF THE SEA–1898 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA–1898 A HAPPY
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
This etext was prepared by Judy Boss, Omaha, NE NOSTROMO A TALE OF THE SEABOARD BY JOSEPH CONRAD “So foul a sky clears not without a storm.” – SHAKESPEARE TO JOHN GALSWORTHY AUTHOR’S NOTE “NOSTROMO” is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which belong to the period following upon the publication of the
An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad
An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad Pues el delito mayor Del hombre es haber nacito CALDERON TO EDWARD LANCELOT SANDERSON AUTHOR’S NOTE “An Outcast of the Islands” is my second novel in the absolute sense of the word; second in conception, second in execution, second as it were in its essence. There was
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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. It was very quiet there.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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. It was very quiet there.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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. It was very quiet there.
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
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. It was very quiet there.
Gaspar Ruiz by Joseph Conrad
Produced by John Orford GASPAR RUIZ By Joseph Conrad I A REVOLUTIONARY war raises many strange characters out of the obscurity which is the common lot of humble lives in an undisturbed state of society. Certain individualities grow into fame through their vices and their virtues, or simply by their actions, which may have a
Falk by Joseph Conrad
FALK BY JOSEPH CONRAD FALK A REMINISCENCE Several of us, all more or less connected with the sea, were dining in a small river-hostelry not more than thirty miles from London, and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to which our coasting men give the grandiose name of “Ger- man Ocean.” And
End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
THE END OF THE TETHER I For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea–seemed to shatter them-