“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...

"Heart of Darkness" (1899) is a novella by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by...

The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad. The novella depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of...

Joseph Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English. He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by...

Nostromo (full title Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard) is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad. Nostromo is set in the South American country of Costaguana, and more specifically in that...

"The Shadow Line" is a novel written and published by Joseph Conrad in 1917. The story has as its main theme the youth and its end. When the protagonist warns that his...

A young man is taking a sea captaincy which brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that...

Joseph Conrad é um escritor singular na língua inglesa. O estilo único se deve à sua formação poliglota e multicultural: Conrad nasceu na Polônia, foi educado em polonês e...

Uma das narrativas ficcionais mais extraordinárias de toda a literatura inglesa, "No coração das trevas" resulta da experiência do escritor no Congo, em 1890. A exemplo do...

Por força de certos caprichos do destino, um jovem marinheiro que pensava ter abandonado a carreira no mar vê-se de repente nomeado capitão de um navio mercante. Em meio aos...