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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.
Conrad's Fate
by Diana Wynne Jones
When I was small, I always thought Stallery Mansion was some kind of fairy-tale castle.
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
IN the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco-the luxuriant beauty of the orange garden...
The mirror of the sea
by Joseph Conrad
Landfall and Departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman's life and of a ship's career.
Victory
by Joseph Conrad
THERE is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds*.
Romance
by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford
TO yesterday and to to-day I say my polite "vaya usted con Dios."
Typhoon
by Joseph Conrad
CAPTAIN MACWHIRR, of the steamer Nan-Shan, had a physiognomy that, in the order of material appearances, was the exact c...
An outcast of the islands
by Joseph Conrad
When he stepped off the straight and narrow path of his peculiar honesty, it was with an inward assertion of unflinching...
The nigger of the "Narcissus"
by Joseph Conrad
Mr. Baker, chief mate of the ship Narcissus, stepped in one stride out of his lighted cabin into the darkness of the qua...
Under Western Eyes
by Joseph Conrad
To begin with I wish to disclaim the possession of those high gifts of imagination and expression which would have enabl...
Youth
by Joseph Conrad
This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak - the sea entering into t...
Stonewords
by Pam Conrad
It seems I had always woken up in the morning with leaves and bits of grass in my toes and under my sheets as if I'd bee...
