Autor Joseph Conrad
This handsome gift edition presents Joseph Conrad's celebrated work, Heart of Darkness, featuring striking gold-embossed cover designs, gilded page edges and patterned endpapers.The inspiration behind Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness tells the story…
Zrcadlo moře patří k prvním knihám autobiografických vzpomínek, které sám Joseph Conrad nazýval „intimními zjeveními“. Vyznává se zde ze svého vztahu k mořím a oceánům a odkrývá svou velkou vášeň ke všemu, co s modrými hlubinami souvisí. Jestliže se…
Joseph Conrad ve svém románu nastoluje stale aktuální otázky rasismu, soucitu, solidarity a smyslu lidského života vůbec. Černoch z lodi Narcissus, Námořní příběh patří mezi nejpodařenější Conradovy rané práce. Současně jde o přelom v jeho tvorbě, jelikož…
Joseph Conrad je u nás sice už od dvacátých let 20. století uznávaným autorem, v českém překladu postupně vyšla většina jeho próz, jedna poloha jeho díla – totiž esejistika – však dosud zůstávala opomíjena. Vytváří přitom intelektuální podloží, na němž…
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‘Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!’ Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his mettle. When the boat he sails…
‘They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic – to terror, too, perhaps.’ Considered one of Conrad’s most political works, The…
Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring
Presents a story woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.
'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.' Set in an Edwardian London underworld of terrorist bombers, spies, grotesques and fanatics, Conrad's dark, unsettling masterpiece asks if we ever really know others, or ourselves. A new…
London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such terrorist is Verloc.…
Acclaimed illustrator Peter Kuper delivers a shocking graphic interpretation of this controversial classic.
Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Life on the river is brutal, and unknown threats lurk in the darkness; the silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Marlow's mission…
Heart of Darkness is classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the 100 best novels and part of the Western canon. In this Reader you will find Information about Joseph Conrads life An introduction focusing on background and context Focus…
The silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Marlow`s mission to captain a steamer upriver into the dense interior leads him into conflict with others who haunt the forest. But his decision to hunt down Mr Kurtz, an ivory…
Joseph Conrad's hauntingly beautiful masterpiece in a hardback gift edition featuring an afterword by Dr Keith Carabine.
Classic / British English Resting one night on a boat on the River Thames, Charlie Marlow tells his friends about his experiences as a steamboat captain on the River Congo. There, in the heart of Africa, his search for the extraordinary Mr Kurtz caused…
Set in the Malay Archipelago, this novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. It explores the dilemmas of conscience, of moral isolation, of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive…
An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit. This compact novel, completed in 1900, is at its baseline…
Novela Srdce temnoty – jedno ze stěžejních děl literatury 20. století – vyšla již v roce 1902, do češtiny však byla poprvé přeložena až v roce 1980. Joseph Conrad při vyprávění čerpal z osobních zkušeností z Belgického Konga. Příběh začíná jako klasický…