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Joseph Conrad Bibliography
A chronological list of Joseph Conrad's works. Novels * ''Almayer's Folly'' 1895 * ''An Outcast of the Islands'' 1896 * '' The Nigger of the 'Narcissus''' 1897 * '' Heart of Darkness'' 1899 * ''Lord Jim'' 1900 * ''Nostromo'' 1904 * ''The Secret Agent'' 1907 * '' Under Western Eyes'' 1911 * ''Chance'' 1913 * ''Victory'' 1915 * '' The Shadow Line'' 1917 * '' The Arrow of Gold'' 1919 * '' The Rescue'' 1920 (begun 1890s) * '' The Rover'' 1923 * ''Suspense'' 1925 (unfinished, published posthumously) Short story collections * '' Tales of Unrest'' 1898 * '' Youth, A Narrative; and Two Other Stories'' 1902 * '' Typhoon and Other Stories'' 1903 * '' A Set of Six'' 1908 * '' 'Twixt Land and Sea'' 1912 * ''Within the Tides'' 1915 * ''Tales of Hearsay'' 1925 With Ford Madox Ford * '' The Inheritors'' 1901 * ''Romance'' 1903 * ''The Nature of a Crime'' 1909 Memoirs and nonfiction * ''The Mirror of the Sea'' 1906 (MS) * ''A Personal Record'' 1912 * ''Notes on Life and Letters'' 1921 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Poles in the United Kingdom#19th century, Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language; though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world. Conrad is considered a Impressionism (literature), literary impressionist by some and an early Literary modernism, modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century Literary realism, realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in ''Lord Jim'', for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typhoon And Other Stories
Typhoon and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by Joseph Conrad published in 1903 by William Heinemann and Company. Stories Three of the four works from the collection first appeared in literary journals. The magazine and date are listed below. “Typhoon” (The Pall Mall Magazine, January–March 1902) “ Falk” (Never serialized) “Amy Foster” (The Illustrated London News, December 1901) “Tomorrow” (Pall Mall Magazine, August 1902) Background Conrad began writing the four short stories that would comprise T''yphoon and Other Stories'' while he was attempting to complete the third and final story for the proposed collection Youth, A Narrative; and Two Other Stories (1902) for William Blackwood and Sons. Setting aside “The End of the Tether”- and after finishing his novel Lord Jim (1900) - Conrad penned in quick succession “Typhoon”, “Falk”, “Amy Foster” and “Tomorrow.” Written at the personal request of publisher William Heinemann, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Foster
"Amy Foster" is a short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1901, first published in the ''Illustrated London News'' (December 1901), and collected in ''Typhoon and Other Stories'' (1903). Plot 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 was a mountaineer (a resident of a mountain area — a ''Goorall''), hence his surname.Though the story does not explicitly mention Yanko being a Pole or speaking Polish, the surname "Goorall" clea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typhoon (novella)
''Typhoon'' is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in ''Pall Mall Magazine'' in January–March 1902. Its first book publication was in New York by G. P. Putnam's Sons, Putnam in 1902; it was also published in Britain in ''Typhoon and Other Stories'' by Heinemann (book publisher), Heinemann in 1903. Plot summary Captain MacWhirr sails the ''SS Nan-Shan'', a British-built steamer running under the Thailand, Siamese flag, into a typhoon—a mature tropical cyclone of the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. Other characters include the young Jukes—most probably an alter ego of Conrad from the time he had sailed under captain John McWhirr—and Solomon Rout, the chief engineer. While Macwhirr, who, according to Conrad, "never walked on this Earth"—is emotionally estranged from his family and crew, and though he refuses to consider an alternative course to skirt the typhoon, his indomitable will in the face of a superior natural force elicits grudging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet (; 13 May 184016 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet. Early life Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the ''bourgeoisie''. His father, Vincent Daudet, was a silk manufacturer — a man dogged through life by misfortune and failure. Alphonse, amid much truancy, had a depressing boyhood. In 1856 he left Lyon, where his schooldays had been mainly spent, and began his career as a schoolteacher at Alès, Gard, in the south of France. The position proved to be intolerable and Daudet said later that for months after leaving Alès he would wake with horror, thinking he was still among his unruly pupils. These experiences and others were reflected in his novel ''Le Petit Chose''. On 1 November 1857, he abandoned teaching and took refuge with his brother Ernest Daudet, only some three years his senior, who was trying, "and thereto soberly," to make a living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Idiots (short Story)
"The Idiots" is a short story by Joseph Conrad, his first to be published. It first appeared in '' The Savoy'' in 1896. The story was included in the Conrad collection '' Tales of Unrest'', published in 1898. Set in Brittany, the story describes a couple whose children have intellectual disability; the strain on the family leads eventually to murder. Background The story was written during Joseph Conrad's honeymoon; he rented a house on Île-Grande, on the north coast of Brittany, from April to August 1896. His wife Jessie later wrote that "much of our Île-Grande life is in that short story.... The stone-cutters are in it, our landlady is in it, and the feeling of our surroundings, perhaps a little more sombrely than the reality", and explained how the story originated: while being driven from Lannion to Île-Grande, the driver pointed out "the idiots", saying "Four - hein. And all in the same family. That's a little too much. And the priests say it's God's will!" “The Idiots ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Outpost Of Progress
"An Outpost of Progress" is a short story written in July 1896 by Joseph Conrad, drawing on his own experience in Belgian Congo. It was published in the magazine Cosmopolis in 1897 and was later collected in Tales of Unrest in 1898. Plot The story deals with two European men, named Kayerts and Carlier, who are assigned to a trading post in a remote part of the African Jungle. There they take part in ivory trading, hoping to financially benefit the company as well as themselves. With no specific tasks or important things to be done, they both become increasingly isolated and demoralized as time goes by. At one point in the story, the native Makola, serving as Kayerts and Carlier's bookkeeper, initiates an exchange of slaves for ivory. Initially Kayerts and Carlier are stunned and scandalized by the idea, yet eventually they accept the deal and aid Makola for his huge profit. Both men are plagued by disease and grow very weak physically towards the end of the story. Finally, a see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Personal Record
''A Personal Record'' is an autobiographical work (or "fragment of biography") by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912. It has also been published under the titles ''A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences'' and ''Some Reminiscences''. Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author's life. It tells about his schooling in Russian Poland, his sailing in Marseille, the influence of his uncle Tadeusz Bobrowski, and the writing of ''Almayer's Folly''. It provides a glimpse of how Conrad wished to be seen by his British public, as well as being an atmospheric work of art. The "Familiar Preface" Conrad wrote for it includes the often quoted lines: "Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, among others, on the idea of Fidelity." Conrad wrote a new 'Author's Note' to A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mirror Of The Sea
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nature Of A Crime
''The Nature of a Crime'' is a collaborative novel written and published in 1909 by authors Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. The text did not acquire acclaim until after Conrad's death in 1924, when Ford brought the text to light in his essay " Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance". ''The Nature of a Crime'' is the last of three books written by Conrad and Ford. Literary and historical context The text was written by Ford and Conrad in 1909, eight years after their earliest collaboration. Prior to the creation of this novel, Ford and Conrad shared an extensive working relationship, both as editors and co-authors. The two co-wrote '' The Inheritors'' in 1901, followed by ''Romance'' in 1903, and finally ''The Nature of a Crime'' in 1909. The two were introduced to one another by Edward Garnett, who wished Conrad would edit a text Ford had written in order to increase its likelihood of being published. The working relationship between the two was very helpful for each author in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance (novel)
''Romance'' is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. It was the second of their three collaborations. ''Romance'' was eventually published by Smith, Elder & Co. in London in 1903 and by McClure, Phillips and Company in New York in March 1904. According to Max Saunders, Conrad, in his quest to obtain a literary collaborator, had been recommended by several literary figures. W. E. Henley pointed to Ford as a suitable choice for Conrad. Literary collaboration was not particularly uncommon when Conrad proposed it to Ford, but neither was it considered the proper way for serious novelists, as Ford was aware: "The critics of our favoured land do not believe in collaboration." The novel was adapted into the film ''The Road to Romance''. The collaboration In his biography of Conrad, ''Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance'' (1924), Ford alleges that some opponents and critics did not hold the same reverence for his "literary friendship" with Conrad as that which he ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Inheritors (Joseph Conrad And Ford Madox Ford)
''The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story'' (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (writing as Ford M. Heuffer) collaborated. Written before the first World War, its themes of corruption and the effect of the 20th century on British aristocracy were prescient. It was first published in London by William Heinemann and later the same year in New York by McClure, Phillips and Company. In the novel, the metaphor of the " fourth dimension" is used to explain a societal shift from a generation of people who have traditional values of interdependence, being overtaken by a modern generation who believe in expediency, callously using political power to bring down the old order. Its narrator is an aspiring writer who himself makes a similar transition at a personal level only to feel he has lost everything. Plot introduction The inheritors are a breed of cold materialists, calling themselves Fourth Dimensionists, whose task is to occupy the earth. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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