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In Joseph Conrad's classic Heart of Darkness, Marlow is a steamboat captain working on the Congo River for a Belgian trading company. Marlow is asked to retrieve Kurtz, a legendary ivory trader who has lost contact with the home office and may have fallen ill. During the expedition Marlow is struck by the Company's mistreatment of the Congo natives. When Marlow arrives at Kurtz's station, he discovers that Kurtz has set himself up as a sort of god to the natives he had once wanted to civilize.

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 Marseille, where he began to work on merchant ships. At age 36 his life turned from one of ships to one of literary pursuit. Conrad brought to English literature both a fresh layer of style and a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of works. In this audiobook we dwell among his numerous short stories.

One of Joseph Conrad's most haunting sea-stories, describing a haunting life or death decision at sea which is made in a moment... and takes a lifetime to doubt it's wisdom.

Lord Jim may have been based in part on true events. Although Conrad never confirmed this assertion, similarities to real life events appear too strong to be dismissed as mere coincidence. The novel is in two main parts: firstly Jim's lapse aboard the Patna and his consequent fall, and secondly, an adventure story about Jim's rise and the tale's denouement amongst the people of Patusan - set in the Indonesian archipelago.

Lord Jim is a riveting story of courage and cowardice, self-knowledge and growth. This story follows the fortunes of Jim, first mate of a ship named Patna, which is abandoned along with the passengers. Jim suffers shame in court for "dereliction of duty". And in abandoning his responsibilities, Jim is always on the run from his past, which affects all his relationships. Only in a faraway culture and settlement - a small island in Malay Peninsula - does he find respect and marriage.

Typhoon is the story of an old steamer and a veteran captain. The captain is normally calm and in control but the ship's sudden envelopment by a typhoon brings out both the best characteristics and the worst of the captain and his crew. This story is a penetrating look at the human spirit in the face of disaster - a recurring theme in Conrad's works.

The Tale was Joseph Conrad’s only story of the First World War. Written in 1916, it was first published the following year in The Strand Magazine.

Der Seemann Nostromo ist ein in Sulaco, einer fiktiven Republik in Südamerika, gestrandeter Italiener. Als Vorarbeiter arbeitet er für Kapitän Mitchell, der die örtliche Niederlassung einer englischen Schiffsgesellschaft, die den Hafen überwacht, betreibt.

Czy w kazdym z nas drzemie prawdziwe zlo? Gdzie leza granice ludzkiego okrucienstwa? Autobiograficzna powiesc Josepha Conrada o jego podrózy do Kongo, która doczekala sie dwóch adaptacji filmowych. Prosta z pozoru fabula staje sie tlem do ukazania prawdziwego oblicza kolonializmu przelomu XIX i XX wiek, w którym nie chodzilo o niesienie przyslowiowego kaganka oswiaty ludom Afryki, lecz o ich wyzysk i zniewolenie.

The stuff of nightmares! A terrifying collection of stories about haunted rooms, strange beds, terrifying dreams and sleepless nights. Listen at bedtime if you dare!

Two colonial officers extol the benefits they are bringing to an African village in the form of "quays and warehouses, and barracks-and billiard-rooms". A French republican who has fathered three idiot sons makes his peace with the Church: only to have an idiot daughter. A woman chooses not to leave her husband...but he leaves her. Such are the ironies of Conrad's earliest short stories.

The story of the enigmatic Kurtz and his outpost in deepest Congo is superbly narrated by the gifted Ralph Cosham. Also included is "The Lagoon", a story of courage and love in the South Pacific.  

Charles Marlow is a steamboat captain on the River Thames near Gravesend, England. He and his crew work for an ivory trading company. One day he recounts to his fellow crew the story of his life and how he became a captain for the steamboat company. The focus of his story involves the journey Marlow undertook to the outer reaches of the company's operations. Here he tells of his wild encounters with Mr. Kurtz, a man with a great reputation for bringing in the most ivory for the company.

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness tells a story based on Conrad's own experiences in the Congo Free State during the 1890s. Set in Africa, the main character, Marlow, is asked to find and bring back the ivory trader, Mr. Kurtz. However, the deeper Marlow travels, the more ominous and depressing his surroundings become.

Der Ich-Erzähler trifft erstmals als 8-jähriger Junge auf Prinz Roman S., der mit seinem Großvater im Krieg im Jahr 1831 gekämpft hatte. Im weiteren Verlauf wird die Geschichte über das Leben des Prinz Roman erzählt. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) war ein britischer Schriftsteller polnischer Herkunft und einer der wichtigsten Schriftsteller des Englands des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Jim goes to sea full of dreams of heroism and boyish adventure. But, under pressure, his own conduct falls far below the ideal he has set himself. Condemned even more by himself than by his fellow men, Jim leaves the world and seeks his redemption in the remote forests of Patusan. It is there he finds fame, love, and success. It is there also that he faces the final and biggest test of his courage and faith, and comes through it in tragic triumph.

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is widely regarded as one of the significant works of English literature. Conrad takes us not only into the darkness of the early 20th century Congo, but also into the deeper darkness of the human psyche. John W Michaels' masterful narration of this work takes you into the troubled mind of a man tormented not only by the isolation of the tropical wilderness, but also man's inhumanity to man.

Mørkets hjerte bygger på Conrads oplevelser som flodkaptajn i Belgisk Congo, 1890. Fortælleren Marlow beretter her om, hvordan han rejser op ad floden og ind i ’mørkets hjerte’ for at finde den udstationerede belgiske elfenbensjæger Kurtz. Det viser sig, at Kurts fra et humant og ædelt udgangspunkt har udviklet sig til en begærlig materialist og despot, der hersker uindskrænket over de omkringboende indfødte.

The Secret Agent was one of the first espionage novels ever written, and it is certainly one of the finest in the oeuvre of Joseph Conrad. The story concerns the attempt by a group of back-alley revolutionaries to destroy one of London's most famous landmarks and thereby set off a revolution.

Mørkets hjerte bygger på Conrads opplevelser som kaptein på en elvebåt i Belgiske Kongo i 1890. I boken forteller hovedpersonen Marlow hvordan han reiser opp langs elven og inn i "mørkets hjerte" for å finne den utstasjonerte belgiske elfenbenjegeren Kurtz. Det viser seg at Kurtz fra et humant og edelt utgangspunkt har utviklet seg til en grådig materialist og despot som fritt hersker over de innfødte i området. I 1998 ble Mørkets hjerte rangert som nummer 67 av de hundre beste engelske romanene i det tjuende århundre av the Modern Library.”