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Tales of Unrest

Tales of Unrest

by Joseph Conrad

Tales of Unrest is a collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad originally published in 1898. Four of the five stories had been published previously in various magazines. This was the first published collection of any of Conrad's stories.The Stories"Karain: A Memory", first published in Blackwood's magazine in 1897"The Idiots", first published in..

The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" -  A Tale Of The Forecastle

The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle

by Joseph Conrad

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus: A Tale of the Forecastle is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Because of its quality compared to earlier works, some have described it as marking the start of Conrad's major, or middle, period; others have placed it as the best work of his early, or first, period.  The title character, James Wait, is a dying West Indian..

The Shadow Line -  A Confession

The Shadow Line - A Confession

by Joseph Conrad

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 in New York's Metropolitan Magazine (September—October) in the English Review (September 1916-March 1917) and published in book form in 1917 in the UK (March) and Amer..

Typhoon

Typhoon

by Joseph Conrad

Typhoon is a novella by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in Pall Mall Magazine in January–March 1902. Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in 1902; it was also published in Britain in Typhoon and Other Stories by Heinemann in 1903. Typhoon is a classic sea yarn, possibly based upon Conrad's actual experience of seaman's l..

Under Western Eyes

Under Western Eyes

by Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes 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 was reputed to have detested Dostoevsky. This novel is considered to be one of Conrad's major works and is close in subject matter to The ..

A Set of Six

A Set of Six

by Joseph Conrad

Although much has been written on Joseph Conrad's major novels, novellas and short stories, very little has been done on his collection of tales and novellas entitled A Set of Six. This study attempts to elucidate the significance of these tales in the light of recent yet limited criticism on them. Avrom Fleishman, Addison C. Bross, and Daniel R. S..

Amy Foster

Amy Foster

by Joseph Conrad

"Amy Foster" is a short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1901, first published in the Illustrated London News (December 1901), and collected in Typhoon and Other Stories (1903). A poor emigrant from Central Europe sailing from Hamburg to America is shipwrecked off the coast of England. The residents of nearby villages, at first unaware of the sink..

Victory -  An Island Tale

Victory - An Island Tale

by Joseph Conrad

Victory: An Island Tale is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved "popular success."The New York Times, however, called it "an uneven book" and "more open to criticism than most of Mr. Conrad's best work." The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal p..