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Almayer’s Folly: a story of an Eastern River

Almayer’s Folly: a story of an Eastern River
  • Author(s): Joseph Conrad
  • 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...

An Outcast of the Islands

An Outcast of the Islands
  • Author(s): Joseph Conrad
  • 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.

Lord Jim

Lord Jim
  • Author(s): Joseph Conrad
  • 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...

Victory

Victory
  • Author(s): Joseph Conrad
  • 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...

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness
  • Author(s): Joseph Conrad
  • 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...

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