Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Marlow tells a deck audience about his trip upriver to find Kurtz, an ivory agent who has become a rumor. Conrad’s tale is about empire and about storytelling.
Author
Joseph Conrad
Conrad, who came to English as an adult, wrote Heart of Darkness as a framed tale about empire and the stories men tell when they come home. The narration is as much the subject as the journey.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness is widely regarded as a critique of European colonialism in Africa, whilst also examining the themes of power dynamics and morality. Although Conrad does not name the river on which most of the narrative takes place, at the time of writing, the Congo Free State—the location of the large and economically important Congo River—was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is set in Soho, London and takes up Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his tales of seafaring.
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes was originally titled "The Laugh" and published serially in Lloyd's Magazine. The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes is set in Marseille in the 1870s during the Third Carlist War.
Typhoon
Typhoon
Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in; it was also published in Britain in Typhoon and Other Stories by Heinemann.
A Set of Six
A Set of Six
The works were collected in A Set of Six, published by Methuen and Company.
The nigger of the "Narcissus"
The nigger of the "Narcissus"
The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle (sometimes subtitled A Tale of the Sea) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad. The central character is an Afro-Caribbean man who is ill at sea while aboard the trading ship Narcissus heading towards London.