It is a letter written by Joseph Conrad novel, published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and is focused on the life of Mr. Verloc and his work as espia. is one of the last political works written by Conrad, who away from its typical maritime stories. deals extensively with issues of anarchism, espionage and terrorism. Anarchists or revolutionaries portrayed before the social upheavals of the twentieth century groups, however, also deals with the issue of exploitation, particularly regarding the relationship between Verloc and his brother. The Secret Agent was identified as "one of...

Nostromo (full title Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard) is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana." It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly. Conrad set his novel in the mining town of Sulaco, an imaginary port in the occidental region of the imaginary country of Costaguana. The book has more fully developed characters than any other of his novels, but two characters dominate the narrative: Senor Gould and the eponymous anti-hero, the "incorruptible" Nostromo. In his "Author's Note" to early editions of Nostromo,...

Verloc is a secret agent. He is also a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives, and bric-a-brac. He lives with his wife Winnie, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Stevie. Stevie has a mental disability, possibly autism, which causes him to be very excitable; his sister, Verloc's wife, attends to him, treating him more as a son than as a brother. Verloc's friends are a group of anarchists of which Comrade Ossipon, Michaelis, and "The Professor" are the most prominent. Although largely ineffectual as terrorists, their actions are known to the...

Aboard a British ship called the Nellie, three men listen to Marlow recount his journey in Africa as an agent for a Belgian ivory trading firm. Along the way, he witnesses brutality and hate between colonizers and the native African people, becomes entangled in a power struggle within the firm, and finally learns the truth about a mysterious Kurtz, a mad agent who has become both a god and a prisoner of the "native Africans." It's more exciting than it sounds, we promise. After "rescuing" Kurtz from the native African people, Marlow watches in horror as Kurtz succumbs to madness, disease, and...

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.

This fascinating novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. It depicts the political turmoil of 19th century Russia and follows the dramatic developments in the life of a student, Razumov, as he prepares for a career in the czarist bureaucratic system. This one unwittingly becomes embroiled in a revolutionary conspiracy when he gives refuge to a fellow student who assassinated a public official. Increasingly entangled in the radical's political intrigue, he chooses to...

A young man sets out on his first voyage as captain, and he is unfamiliar with both his ship and his crew. He is unsure of his ability to exert his authority over the officers and crew who have been together for some time, and makes the point several times that he is the "stranger" on board. A mysterious naked night-swimmer climbs aboard, and, in keeping the presence of this fugitive a secret and finding a natural rapport with him, the skipper risks both his captaincy and the safety of his ship. A test of nerve in the Gulf of Siam (now the Gulf of Thailand) ensues.

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 sinking, and hence of the possibility of survivors, regard him as a dangerous tramp and madman. He speaks no English; his strange foreign language frightens them, and they offer him no assistance. Eventually "Yanko Goorall" (as rendered in English spelling) is given shelter and employment by an eccentric old local, Mr. Swaffer. Yanko learns a little English. He explains that his given name Yanko means "little John" and that he...

This novel is about one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a typhoon of incredible fury. Captain Macwhirr is the captain of the Nan-shan. He has a reputation as a solid, steadfast man. So, when multiple clues start pointing to trouble ahead and his second-in-chief cautions him, he is only moderately concerned and unwilling to change course and lose precious time and money - a decision that may prove fatal for him and his two hundred Chinese workers...

A Set of Six is a collection of six short stories by Joseph Conrad. It was published for the first time in 1908. It includes some long stories such as Gaspar Ruiz and The Duel (inspired by the duels of General Fournier Sarloveze) and four shorter stories: The Informer, The Brute, An anarchist, and Il Conde."