Written by Joseph Conrad

Within the Tides - Tales

by Joseph Conrad

Conrad gave considerable thought to putting recent stories in the right order and ... only with annotated texts of the stories collected in Within the Tides. The most substantial of these four stories is ‘The Planter of Malata’, in which the lonely, laconic planter, Renouard, falls in love with Felicia. Excerpts from the bookThe Planter of Mal..

Suspense - A Napoleonic Novel

by Joseph Conrad

A deep red glow flushed the fronts of marble palaces piled up on the slope of an arid mountain whose barren ridge traced high on the darkening sky a ghostly and glimmering outline. The winter sun was setting over the Gulf of Genoa. Behind the massive shore the sky to the east was like darkening glass. The open water too had a glassy look with a pur..