Description
Book SynopsisJoseph Conrad was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1874 Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel,
Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year he settled in Kent, where he produced
The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897),
Heart of Darkness (1899)
, Lord Jim (1900)
and the political novels
Nostromo (1904),
The Secret Agent (1907) and
Under Western Eyes (1911). He continued to write until his death in 1924.
Trade ReviewAs powerful a condemnation of imperialism as has ever been written * Observer *
Once experienced, it is hard to let
Heart of Darkness go. A masterpiece of surprise, of expression and psychological nuance, of fury at colonial expansion and of how men make the least of life . . . endlessly readable and worthy of rereading * Telegraph *
