Author of Audiobooks - Joseph Conrad
'Twixt Land and Sea - Joseph Conrad
'Twixt Land and Sea - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction
While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place on land, albeit in sight of the sea. In "A Smile of Fortune", a naive young sea captain falls into grave moral...
The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The Mirror of the Sea (collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines 1904-6 ), 1906 (Summary from Wikipedia)...
Typhoon - Joseph Conrad
Typhoon - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describes how Captain Macwhirr sails the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into a typhoon. Other characters include the young...
The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad
The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Dedicated to the author's son who was wounded in World War 1, The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first published in 1916 as a serial and...
Victory: An Island Tale - Joseph Conrad
Victory: An Island Tale - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction
Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific. After retreating from society in response to his professional failures, the misanthrope is drawn back by a...
Almayer's Folly - Joseph Conrad
Almayer's Folly - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love with the daughter. Conflict arises when other influences cause distrust in the business partnership and the...
Youth, a Narrative - Joseph Conrad
Youth, a Narrative - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction
An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. This volume also includes Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, which are concerned with maturity...
One Day More - Joseph Conrad
One Day More - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Family Life / Drama
A one-act play. Eccentric (crazy?) Captain Hagberd has been waiting for years for his son to come home from the sea. He has scrimped and saved, outfitting a house for Harry to inherit upon his return, which will be in only "one day more." He has...
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and minds as a mysterious shadow, Heart of Darkness famously explores the rituals of civilisation and barbarism,...
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
A young untested ship captain finds a man named Leggatt clinging to the side of his ship. The Captain makes the unusual decision to hide Leggatt in his quarters. What is he thinking? Conrad will tell us. - The Secret Sharer was first published in...
Heart of Darkness (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part...
Amy Foster - Joseph Conrad
Amy Foster - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk. The one exception is the loving,...
The Point of Honor - Joseph Conrad
The Point of Honor - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the...
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Version 2) - Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
The Secret Agent tells the story of Adolf and Winnie Verloc. He is a phony anarchist and agent provocateur of the title, and the plot centres around the terrible consequences for their family when he is pressured into planning a terrorist act. It...
The Inheritors - Joseph Conrad
The Inheritors - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It looks at society's mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the process. Written before the first World...
Tales of Unrest - Joseph Conrad
Tales of Unrest - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Tales of Unrest (1898) is the first collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime. Joseph Conrad (1857β1924), a Polish-born English novelist, was a master in the formats of long short story and novella, a form of story...
An Outcast Of The Islands - Joseph Conrad
An Outcast Of The Islands - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vigar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a...
Nigger of the Narcissus - Joseph Conrad
Nigger of the Narcissus - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. βIt was a bad winter off the Cape that year.β From Wikepedia: βThe novel is seen as an allegory about isolation and solidarity, the...
Chance - Joseph Conrad
Chance - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction
Apparently a two part story about a Damsel and a Knight, perhaps a damsel who depends upon the kindness of strangers. It was originally entitled "Dynamite" and first published by installments in the New York Herald. The book itself was the biggest...
Almayer's Folly (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
Almayer's Folly (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Almayerβs Folly is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. Kaspar Almayer is a white European. He agrees to marry a native Malayan captured by Captain Tom Lingard, his employer, believing the...
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment, Conrad being reputed to have detested...
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea -- and of his expiation of that sin against his own "shadowy ideal of conduct" on the...
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
SeΓ±or Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political instability in Costaguana and its concomitant corruption, and puts his weight behind the Ribierist project, which he...
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th Century. The novel centers on Verloc, a shop-owner,...
Typhoon (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
Typhoon (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
A seafaring novella in which those manning ships are pitted against the forces of nature. A typical Conrad exploration of human beings under emotional strain with the consequences for social and spiritual existence. - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes - Joseph Conrad
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to run dangerous missions on their behalf, with the financial support of a beautiful but exceedingly baffling...
Almayer's Folly (Version 3) - Joseph Conrad
Almayer's Folly (Version 3) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Joseph Conrad was born in former Poland, spent part of his childhood exiled in Russia because of his father's Polish nationalist political activities, learned and read French early, and did not speak a word of English until his late teens. It is...
A Personal Record - Joseph Conrad
A Personal Record - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Memoirs
Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way through writing 'Under Western Eyes'. His avowed aim was to give his readers a sense of 'the man behind the...
The Secret Agent (Version 3) - Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent (Version 3) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, London in 1894, Conrad tells the dark tale of Adolf Verloc, an indolent, double-dealing secret agent of a foreign...
An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2) - Joseph Conrad
An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional tensions that are such a distinctive feature of the social life of the little settlement of Sambir, on the...
Heart of Darkness (version 4) - Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (version 4) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small group of friends about a profoundly disturbing episode in his life where he was employed by a large...
The Rover - Joseph Conrad
The Rover - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
This is Joseph Conrad's last novel. Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. The arrival of young Lieutenant Real necessitates another mission of danger, patriotism and heroism from Peyrol. Summary by...
The Rescue - Joseph Conrad
The Rescue - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan archipelago. Tom Lingard was probably based on the real-life William Lingard, a runaway from an English landed family who...
The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2) - Joseph Conrad
The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic reputation, with visceral disgust. There is a sad irony in this, for Conrad's title originally alluded to a...
The End Of The Tether - Joseph Conrad
The End Of The Tether - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
At an age when he should, by rights, be embarking on a well-deserved and comfortable retirement, Captain Whalley, a sailor of the old school β and even, in a small way, a pioneer of the eastern maritime trade β finds himself forced by circumstance...
Tales of Unrest (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
Tales of Unrest (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Single Author Collections
A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is determined to bear no more. A spoonful of sugar brings a neophyte ivory trader to a moment of Nietzschean...
Nostromo (Version 2) - Joseph Conrad
Nostromo (Version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction
In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a grandly panoramic, yet deeply unsettling, narrative that sees every conceivable type of political person β...
Heart of Darkness (version 3) - Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (version 3) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Heart of Darkness tells the story of an English seaman, Charles Marlow, who embarks on a voyage up the Congo River and into the African wilderness. He soon becomes obsessed with the success of an ivory trading commander, Kurtz. Little does he know,...