Biblio Library

Deep dive into this cracking collection of ‘Selected Joseph Conrad’, featuring fantastic tales of love, loss, and adventure on land, sea and in the dark and mysterious jungle.From ...

Who is the man that wrote the famous "Heart of Darkness"?No one can tell you that better than Joseph Conrad himself. "A Personal Record" dwells deep into the time, places and peopl ...

»Amy Foster« is a short story by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1901. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, ...

»An Outpost of Progress« is a short story by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1897. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of ...

»The Brute« is a short story by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1906. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, a ...

»The Idiots« is a short story by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1896. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, ...

»The Lagoon« is a short story by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1896. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, ...

»The Return« is a short story by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1897. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, ...

»The Secret Sharer« is a short story by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1910. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seve ...

»The Tale« is a short story by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1907. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, an ...

»Youth« is a short story by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1902. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, and e ...

Heart of Darkness is a classic novel by Joseph Conrad. The narrator of the book is Charles Marlow, who travels up the Congo River in colonial Africa. His trip becomes a descent int ...

Lord Jim is a classic novel by Joseph Conrad. The book tells the story of a parson's son who takes to the sea, but abandons his ship and spends the rest of his life trying to come ...

A collection of three long stories, 'Twixt Land and Sea' explores the troubled life of young captains at sea. Mired by dire circumstances and moral dilemmas, Conrad’s characters ar ...

Set against a backdrop of the Chilean War of Independence, 'Gaspar Ruiz' is the story of the tumultuous rise and fall of a local peasant turned rebel soldier. An epic tale of remar ...

'The Mirror of the Sea' (1906) is a collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines between 1904 and 1906.Joseph Conrad lived an exciting and eventful li ...

Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Joseph Conrad’s novella The Duel tells the fascinating tale of two French officers, D'Hubert and Feraud, whose rivalry escalates in ...

Captain Whalley, an aging and once-prosperous sea captain, is struggling to maintain his dignity and livelihood in his twilight years. Whalley owns a share in a rundown steamer, th ...

Nostromo unfolds in the fictional Latin American republic of Costaguana, where the English Gould family has controlled the country's sole natural resource, a silver mine, for three ...

There is a reason why the sea is so often chosen for the setting of psychological thrillers - there is nowhere to escape to.Joseph Conrad returned to the ocean waves for 'The Shado ...

'Romance' is the second piece in a collaborative series by Conrad and Ford, this tale takes the shape of an adventure story. The narrator finds himself entangled in all kinds of tr ...

A precocious take on the science fiction genre well before it rose to prominence - 'The Inheritors' single-handedly tackles the complex themes of corruption, social matters and tra ...

'The Nature of a Crime' is the last collaborative work by Conrad and Ford, but most certainly not the least acclaimed. An insightful examination of human psychology that shines a g ...

"Almayer’s Folly" (1895) is Joseph Conrad’s debut novel. It centers on the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer, who comes to Borneo with a suitcaseful of dreams. He settles on the exotic i ...

The water is crystal clear. The sun is blazing. And there’s death on the horizon. Set at the turn of the 20th century, "Victory" takes place in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia ...