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    60 Books
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    January 1895
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    February 2014
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Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski in Russian-occupied Poland in 1857. His parents were aristocrats and intensely nationalistic political activists. By the age of 12 he had lost both to tuberculosis and was raised by an uncle. In 1874 the teenager left for Marseilles, where he began sailing for the French merchant service. Four years later he fled to England with little English, but earned his master's certificate and became a British national.

He began writing in English and many of his first stories are related to his experiences at sea in many different parts of the world. His first published work in 1895 was ALMAYER'S FOLLY for which his publisher chose the anglicized version of his Polish name. In 1896 he married Jessie George; they had two sons, Borys in 1898 and John in 1906. Although plagued by physical illness and psychological problems, Conrad had one of the most formidable bodies of work in the English language. He died in 1924.

Book List in Order: 60 titles



  • Joseph Conrad was a British author who is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers in English literature.  Conrad’s style influenced many of the great authors that followed him.  This edition of Almayer’s Folly includes a table...



  • he murmured with conviction - speaking aloud to himself in the shock of the penetrating thought: I am a lost man' Peter Willems, a clerk in Macassar, granted a 'second chance' at a remote river trading post, falls ever more hopelessly into traps set...



  • The Children of the Sea is an exciting sea adventure novel and Joseph Conrad's best work of his early period. In fact, were it not for the book's title, it undoubtedly would be read more often than it is currently. At one time, it was one of ...



  • The five stories brought together in Tales of Unrest (1898) mark a turning point in the writer's career. Conrad's first short story collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft staking a claim to diverse cultural and fictional ter...



  • In Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and ...



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    ''To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be pronounced.''Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishma...



  • When Arthur, a writer-turned-journalist, meets a mysterious and alluring woman, he is drawn into the world of the Fourth Dimensionists, a societal faction that uses political power to break down traditional values in the name of expedience. As Arthur...



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    With his unique and powerful prose, it was Joseph Conrad's aim to make readers feel, hear and see whatever graced the pages of his work. John Lyon provides a brilliant introduction and insightful notes for Joseph Conrad: Youth...



  • Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. Some of his works have been labelled romantic: Conrad's supposed "romanticism" is heavily imbued with irony and a fine sense of man's capacity for self-...






  • Joseph Conrad was a Polish novelist, writing in English, while living in England. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, despite his not having learned to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties ...



  • One of three novels on which Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford collaborated, Romance tells the story of John Kemp, who dreams of adventure but has never set foot beyond the boundary of the family farm. Kemp gets more than he bargained for when advent...



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    Widely considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is an immensely exciting tale of love, revolution, and politics set in the mythical South American country of Costaguana during the 1890s. ...



  • Set in early twentieth-century London and inspired by an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, The Secret Agent is a complex exploration of motivation and morality. The title character, Adolf Verloc, is obviously no James Bond. In fact...



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    “The Secret Sharer and Other Stories” is a collection of seafaring tales by famed author Joseph Conrad. In “The Secret Sharer”, a nameless captain discovers a stow-away clinging to the side of his ship and secretly brings him aboard and harbo...



  • With this gripping story, Joseph Conrad set out not only to weave a superb, suspenseful tale, but also to render "the psychology of Russia". He created a chillingly accurate portrayal of the future--and the terrorists who still haunt our time...



  • Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.Ever since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided gently in smooth water. After a sixty days' passage I was anxious to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics. The m...



  • There is a degree of bliss too intense for elation.This little-known novella from one of the masters of the form is so unusual for Joseph Conrad's work in several respects, although not in its exotic maritime setting or its even more exotic prose -...



  • Joseph Conrad was a British author who is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers in English literature.  Conrad’s style influenced many of the great authors that followed him.  This edition of Chance includes a table of content...



  • Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The last word of this novel was written on 29 May 1914. And that last word was the single word of the title....






  • Published in 1915, Joseph Conrad's Within the Tides is a collection of psychological thrillers and melodramas involving love and betrayal. These tales of the sea are replete explore the ferocious side of nature and the havoc played by fate....



  • Joseph Conrad was a British author who is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers in English literature.  Conrad’s style influenced many of the great authors that followed him.  This edition of The Shadow Line includes a table o...



  • On patrol in the North Sea, an English naval commander’s ship finds evidence of enemy resupply, possibly by a neutral country. Befogged, the ship motors carefully into a cove on a coast the crew knows well where they encounter just such a neutral s...



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    Joseph Conrad was a British author who is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers in English literature.  Conrad’s style influenced many of the great authors that followed him.  This edition of The Arrow of Gold includes a table...



  • Joseph Conrad was a British author who is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers in English literature.  Conrad’s style influenced many of the great authors that followed him.  This edition of The Rescue includes a table of con...



  • As the Revolution rages in France, a seafarer named Peyrol comes to the end of a lifetime lived on the seas and seeks refuge in a remote farmhouse on the French Riviera. As he attempts to settle into a peaceful existence, Peyrol struggles to redefine...






  • "The Black Mate" is a sea story written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). It was first published in 1884. The tale starts in first person narrative mode. The un-named narrator is a friend of the mate of the Sapphire Winston Bunter, and he is present in t...






  • An un-named narrator describes the Count he meets at his hotel in Naples. He is a cultivated, rich, and sympathetic character, yet the narrator does not know his name or where he is from. The narrator leaves for ten days to look after a friend who is...



  • The “Letters” part of this 1921 collection of short pieces by the author of “Heart of Darkness” and Lord Jim takes on the subjects Stephen Crane, Guy de Maupassant, Anatole France, Turgenev, and others. The second part, entitled “Life,” i...





  • An un-named narrator, an old Russian military campaigner, recounts scenes from the Napoleonic wars, finally focusing on his special relationship with a young soldier called Tomassov who had previously been posted in Paris. In an attack on the demoral...



  • "An Outpost of Progress" is a short story written in July 1897 by Joseph Conrad, drawing on his own experience at Congo.

    The story deals with two European men, named Kayerts and Carlier, who are assigned to a trading post in a remo...



  • Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town; and since saints are supposed to look benigna...



  • A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Joseph Conrad's early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a seaman. It is also an artistic and political manifesto. The introduction traces Conrad's sources a...



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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...



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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...



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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...






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    Joseph Conrad was a British author who is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers in English literature.  Conrad’s style influenced many of the great authors that followed him.  This edition of Gaspar Ruiz includes a table of co...



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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...



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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...



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    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. And shippes by the brinke comen and gon, And in swich forme endure a day or two. THE FRANKELEYN'S TALE....



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    Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to ...



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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...



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    Joseph Conrad is often regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English language. He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honor. Collected h...



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    “More appalling than the fury of a wild beast . . . was the . . . savage purpose man alone is capable of.”A classic tale by Joseph Conrad, made available once again. Conrad (1857-1924) spent his most formative years in France and sailing under th...



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    This rich and varied collection of Joseph Conrad's finest writing is dramatic proof of his ability to chronicle man's adventures and achievements in foreign and often hostile environments, both on land and sea. The sweeping panorama of people, places...



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    Karain, A Memory was written in the year 1897 by Joseph Conrad. In 'Karain, a Memory', a Malay war-chief makes an odyssey trying to kill a woman who left her native village with a white man. He becomes haunted by the spirit of his dead brother...






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    The white man, turning his back upon the setting sun, looked along the empty and broad expanse of the sea-reach. For the last three miles of its course the wandering, hesitating river, as if enticed irresistibly by the freedom of an open horizon, flo...



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    Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the lar...



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    Prince Roman is a Pole who gives up his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as a (virtually) unknown soldier resisting Russian oppression. When captured, he has every opportunity to escape punishment, but declares himself unequivocally c...



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    An intense, psychologically charged domestic drama, The Return is a brilliant and haunting exploration of the insecurities that lie at the heart of human relationships. When successful businessman Alvan Hervey begins his daily journey back from the c...



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    JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, he went to sea at the age of seventeen and eventually joined the crew of an Engli...



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    Embarking in the tropics, a ship's captain makes the instant acquaintance of a seemingly genial Mr. Jacobus and his irritable brother. One a respectable businessman with a considerable reputation, the other a confessed rogue and entrepreneur with no ...



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    It was the shock of this disappointment, perhaps, coming soon after the loss of his wife, that had driven him crazy on that point, the barber suggested, with an air of great psychological insight. After a time the old man abandoned the active search....



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    Joseph Conrad was a British author who is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers in English literature.  Conrad’s style influenced many of the great authors that followed him.  This edition of Typhoon includes a table of conten...


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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joseph Conrad has published 60 books.

Joseph Conrad does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Personal Record, was published in February 2014.

The first book by Joseph Conrad, Almayer's Folly, was published in January 1895.

No. Joseph Conrad does not write books in series.