Selected short stories / Joseph Conrad

By:

Conrad, Joseph [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Wordsworth Classics, c1997.Description: xxvi, 238 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

9781853261909

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PZ 1 .C66 1997

Contents:

An outpost of progress -- The lagoon -- Karain : a memory -- Youth : a narrative -- Amy Foster -- An anarchist -- The informer -- Il Conde -- The secret sharer -- Prince Roman -- The tale.

Summary: Chosen and Introduced by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury and Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society This specially commissioned selection of Conrad's short stories includes favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer, a thrilling psychological drama; An Outpost of Progress, a blackly comic prelude to Heart of Darkness; Amy Foster, a moving story of a shipwrecked, alienated Pole; and The Lagoon and Karain, two exotic, exciting Malay tales. Il Conde and The Tale are subtle portrayals of bewildered outrage; An Anarchist and The Informer are sardonic depictions of revolutionaries; and Prince Roman is a tale of magnificent, doomed heroism set in Conrad's native Poland during the Uprising of 1831.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	NU Clark Circulation	Non-fiction	GC PZ 1 .C66 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		NUCLA000001393

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An outpost of progress -- The lagoon -- Karain : a memory -- Youth : a narrative -- Amy Foster -- An anarchist -- The informer -- Il Conde -- The secret sharer -- Prince Roman -- The tale.

Chosen and Introduced by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury and Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society This specially commissioned selection of Conrad's short stories includes favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer, a thrilling psychological drama; An Outpost of Progress, a blackly comic prelude to Heart of Darkness; Amy Foster, a moving story of a shipwrecked, alienated Pole; and The Lagoon and Karain, two exotic, exciting Malay tales. Il Conde and The Tale are subtle portrayals of bewildered outrage; An Anarchist and The Informer are sardonic depictions of revolutionaries; and Prince Roman is a tale of magnificent, doomed heroism set in Conrad's native Poland during the Uprising of 1831.

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