Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The girl he had come across... that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.' Damaged by his father's nihilistic philosophy, Axel Heyst has withdrawn from the world to live in near-isolation on the island of Samburan. His…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head. One of Conrad's most powerful, gripping stories. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the perils he encounters on his quest, but also the deterioration of his state of mind as he is…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west! Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his mettle. When the boat he sails in threatens to sink, Jim abandons ship in fear in order to save…
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Helbling Readers Blue Series is designed for teenagers and young adults. Readers can choose from sensitively adapted teen-relevant classics and a gripping selection of original fiction.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 'The mind of man is capable of anything — because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage — who can tell — but truth — truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder — the man knows, and can look on without a wink'. Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled…
Скачать книгу (размер 447 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 89) Аннотация: Resting one night on a boat on the River Thames, Charlie Marlow tells his friends about his experiences as a steamboat captain on the River Congo. There, in the heart of Africa, his search for the extraordinary Mr Kurtz caused him to question his own nature and values – and the nature and values of his society.
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: There's some bad weather out there, Captain MacWhirr said to himself just before he sailed his ship, the Nan-Shan, into the middle of the most terrible storm in the South China Sea. The typhoon brings out the best in some men on the ship, and the worst in others. Can MacWhirr bring the ship through the storm safely? And what will happen to all the poor Chinese workers travelling home down in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Adolf Verloc is a double agent, working for both the British police and a foreign country. He pretends to live a normal life, with his wife, Winnie, and has a shop in London, which, at night, becomes a meeting place for anarchists. One day Verloc is told to plant a bomb but the plan goes terribly wrong Does Verloc really love Winnie, or is she just part of his cover? Can Winnie ever forgive him?…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Victory, don't forget, has come out of my innermost self. Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. Sub-titled An Island Tale, it tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead father's nihilistic philosophy, has retreated from the world of commerce and colonial exploration to live alone on the island of Samburan. But Heyst's solitary existence ends when…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be «a simple tale» proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim — nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be pronounced. Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman — as unflinching as a hero in a book — who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: «In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Conrad wrote two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fiction of the 20th century. «Heart of Darkness» and «The Secret Sharer» encapsulate his literary achievements — and his haunting portrayal of the dark side of man.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Conrad’s spiritual journey into darkest Africa is based on his own experience in the Congo at the end of the 19th century. Marlow, the narrator, is torn between revulsion for and attraction towards colonialism but is driven onwards by an overwhelming desire to meet the mysterious Kurtz.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: I have heard no end of tales of his strength, his audacity, his fidelity... incorruptible! It is indeed a name of honour for the Capataz of the Cargadores of Sulaco. One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo enacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. In the harbourtown of Sulaco, a vivid cast of…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt before or since. link title to catalogue entry (exact date?) Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Lush prose and penetrating psychological insight infuse Conrad's first novel with the qualities that have made him one of the most popular and most studied writers in English literature. The novel chronicles the tragic decline of a Dutch merchant isolated in 19th-century Borneo, the machinations of his bitter Malayan wife, and the loss of his much loved daughter.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 346) Аннотация: An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Conrad`s second novel, is a tale of intrigue in an eastern setting. Love and death are the major players in this parable of human frailty — the story of a man unable to understand others and fated never to possess his own soul.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressures? Nostromo is an…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough to bury five millions of lives.' Conrad's 'monstrous town' is London, and his story of espionage and counter-espionage, anarchists and embassies, is a…