Conrad's Short Fiction
Title | Conrad's Short Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Graver |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0520338081 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
Selected Short Stories
Title | Selected Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Conrad |
Publisher | Wordsworth Editions |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781853261909 |
A selection of short stories including favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer, a thrilling psychological drama; An Outpost of Progress, a blackly comic prelude to Heart of Darkness; Amy Foster, a moving story of a shipwrecked, alienated Pole; and The Lagoon and Karain, two exotic, exciting Malay tales.
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
Title | Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Conrad |
Publisher | Union Square Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-09-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781435172319 |
When Charles Marlow travels to Africa to serve as steamboat pilot for an ivory-trading company, he learns he is to rendezvous with Kurtz, a trading-post agent held in high regard. But the deeper Marlow penetrates into the jungle, the grimmer the assessments of Kurtz become. Described by Conrad himself as "something quite on another plane than an anecdote of a man who went mad in the Centre of Africa," Heart of Darkness has long been regarded as a powerful appraisal of the fragility of civilization and the consequences of imperialism. This collection includes another five of Conrad's incomparable tales of adventure, including "The Secret Sharer," "Youth," and "Typhoon."
Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography
Title | Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography PDF eBook |
Author | Edward W. Said |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2008-01-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 023151154X |
Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. The critic also argues that the author, who set his fiction in exotic locations like East Asia and Africa, projects political dimensions in his work that mirror a colonialist preoccupation with "civilizing" native peoples. Said then suggests that this dimension should be considered when reading all of Western literature. First published in 1966, Said's critique of the Western self's struggle with modernity signaled the beginnings of his groundbreaking work, Orientalism, and remains a cornerstone of postcolonial studies today.
Joseph Conrad: The stories
Title | Joseph Conrad: The stories PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Conrad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781851960569 |
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction
Title | Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | R. Hampson |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2000-11-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230598005 |
This is the first major study to bring together for examination all of Conrad's Malay fiction: the early novels, Almayer's Folly , An Outcast of the Islands , and Lord Jim ; the two later novels, Victory and The Rescue ; and various short stories, such as The Lagoon and Karain . The volume focuses on cross-cultural encounters, cultural identity and cultural dislocation, paying particular attention to issues of race and gender. He also situates Conrad's fiction in relation to earlier English accounts of South-East Asia.
Victory
Title | Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Conrad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | English fiction |
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