Almayer’s Folly: a story of an Eastern River
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
This is Joseph Conrad’s first novel and it sets the style that he adopts throughout his literary life. He describes the unravelling of flawed characters against a backdrop of dramatic proportions. Conrad’s powers of description are remarkable with the crisis in...
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Conrad used his experience within the British empire to write novels and stories that often used the sea and navy as a setting, juxtaposing the individual human spirit with the collective duty and honor of the British navy.
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
Jim is young, ambitious and idealistic, keen to make his name in the world. But fate has other plans. Jim has been made First Mate on board the Patna, but when the she starts to flood in the middle...
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and...
- Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
River steamboat captain Charles Marlow has set forth on the Congo in Africa to find the enigmatic European trader Mr. Kurtz. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god...