Reflecting Conrad's genius for narrative that focuses on the quest for inner truths, The Arrow of Gold is an exploration of the dangerous appetites of men and of human vulnerability, as well as a profound meditation on the emotional boundary between people. Boasting a cast of extraordinary and eccentric personalities, including the heroine Dona Rita, this is a story of adventure on the high seas, of the revelation of love, of the crushing weight of loss, and of freedom found in the recklessness of unadorned sincerity.
During the Carlist war of the early 1870s, a young sailor,...
Reflecting Conrad's genius for narrative that focuses on the quest for inner truths, The Arrow of Gold is an exploration of the dangerous ap...
Secret terror cells, political conspiracy, police bungling, state-sponsored bomb plots... This is London, 1896. Inspired by Joseph Conrad's classic novel, The Secret Agent is theatre O's heartbreaking and hilarious chronicle of passion, betrayal and terrorism. Set at a time of social upheaval and growing disparity between rich and poor, at the heart of this tale is a woman fighting to protect her young brother from exploitation and violence. In their trademark highly imaginative style, described by the New York Times as, -vivid, enlightening, inventive and compelling-, music...
Secret terror cells, political conspiracy, police bungling, state-sponsored bomb plots... This is London, 1896. Inspired by Joseph Conrad's classic no...
Powieść opowiada o otchłani szaleństwa, w które popadł Europejczyk Kurtz w sercu Afryki. Najpierw tylko tubylcy uznali go za boga, wkrótce on sam tak uważał. Na podstawie tej powieści F.F. Coppola nakręcił głośny film "Czas Apokalipsy". Autorka opracowania Anna Popławska.
Powieść opowiada o otchłani szaleństwa, w które popadł Europejczyk Kurtz w sercu Afryki. Najpierw tylko tubylcy uznali go za boga, wkrótce on s...
Istnieją książki, które po wciągnięciu do kanonu, osiadają w nim i tracą swoją wywrotową siłę. Istnieją też takie, które nawet wpisane na listę „zabytków klasy zero” pozostają groźne. Takie wydaje mi się Jądro ciemności – wspaniałe, wieloznaczne, mroczne i skandaliczne arcydzieło.
Znaczenie Jądra ciemności rosło powoli: w 1924 roku Thomas Stearns Eliot, jeden z największych poetów angielskich stulecia, wykorzystał zdanie z opowiadania Conrada jako motto do swojego poematu Wydrążeni ludzie, sygnalizując pokrewieństwo w szukaniu wyrazu dla pustki...
Istnieją książki, które po wciągnięciu do kanonu, osiadają w nim i tracą swoją wywrotową siłę. Istnieją też takie, które nawet wpisane ...
Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming Conrad's place in literature as one of the first 'modernists' of English letters.
Lord Jim explores the dilemmas of...
Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
First published in 1900, Lord Jim established C...
With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain.
'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 detective story that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc's...
With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain.
Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in some individuals.
The other two stories...
Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's...
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 confronted with a world that is hostile and alien to him.
On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most rem...
'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 balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and...
'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, gri...
Czy w każdym z nas drzemie prawdziwe zło? Gdzie leżą granice ludzkiego okrucieństwa?
Autobiograficzna powieść Josepha Conrada o jego podróży do Kongo, która doczekała się dwóch adaptacji filmowych. Prosta z pozoru fabuła staje się tłem do ukazania prawdziwego oblicza kolonializmu przełomu XIX i XX wieku, w którym nie chodziło o niesienie przysłowiowego kaganka oświaty ludom Afryki, lecz o ich wyzysk i zniewolenie.
Czy w każdym z nas drzemie prawdziwe zło? Gdzie leżą granice ludzkiego okrucieństwa?
Autobiograficzna powieść Josepha Conrada o jego p...