Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad: 9 Quintessential Books in One Collection
Including Memoirs, Letters & Essays
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-0083-2
Table of Contents
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’: A Tale of the Forecastle
A Personal Record; or Some Reminiscences
Some Reflections On The Loss Of The Titanic
Certain Aspects Of The Admirable Inquiry Into The Loss Of The Titanic
Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh Walpole
Joseph Conrad by John Albert Macy
A Conrad Miscellany by John Albert Macy
Joseph Conrad & The Athenæum by Arnold Bennett
Joseph Conrad by Virginia Woolf
NOVELS AND NOVELLAS
HEART OF DARKNESS
1
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth.
The Director of Companies was our captain and our host. We four affectionately