Un etudiant russe (Razoumov) trouve un soir chez lui, cache, l'assassin d'un eminent homme d'Etat responsable repression tsariste survenue des heures plus tot. Ce dernier lui demande de l'aider a fuir. Notre heros accepte, mais finit par le denoncer a la police. Il se trouve alors pris dans un engrenage et est engage pour espionner des revolutionnaires actifs a l'etranger, et notamment en Suisse... Sous les yeux des occidentaux qui peinent a comprendre l'ame slave se deroule la tragedie du peuple russe broye par l'autocratie et l'anarchisme."

The best selling classic Heart of Darkness tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who worked for a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more urgent job is to return Kurtz,

The best selling classic Heart of Darkness tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who worked for a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more urgent job is to return Kurtz,

The Duel By Joseph Conrad, Editorial Oneness (Edited by)

Through a business misadventure, the European Axel Heyst ends up living on an island in what is now Indonesia, with a Chinese assistant Wang. Heyst visits a nearby island when a female band is playing at a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg.

Under Western Eyes By Joseph Conrad, Editorial Oneness (Edited by)

Nostromo By Joseph Conrad, Editorial Oneness (Edited by)

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, London, England. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between London and Africa as places of darkness. Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between so-called civilised people and those...

Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Lord Jim 85th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.