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Novela injustamente relegada dentro de la obra de Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), la palabra VICTORIA que le da título no hace referencia al nombre de ninguna heroína que recorra sus páginas, sino al triunfo final que redime una existencia complicada, azarosa y difícil, como suele ser la de los personajes creados por este autor, quizá el más paradigmático de ellos Lord Jim (BA 0821). Situada en los exóticos parajes de los mares del Sur, la novela, más allá de su entretenida historia, presenta un elenco inolvidable de personajes y ambientes de sabor conradiano, que van desde su solitario y noble protagonista, "el sueco" Axel Heyst, al infame y rencoroso Schomberg, Lena, tan triste como bella y entregada, y el desalmado señor Jones junto con su secuaz Martin Ricardo.

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Buena parte de la crítica coincide en señalar el comienzo del ?gran Conrad? con la redacción y publicación de EL NEGRO DEL NARCISSUS (1897), novela que se desarrolla a lo largo de la travesía de este buque desde Bombay hasta Londres. Pero el Narcissus, como todo barco, es un microcosmos aislado en medio de la nada donde, ante fortunas o adversidades, los caracteres se forjan o se ponen de manifiesto, y su singladura, como todo viaje, una experiencia transformadora. La inquietante figura del moribundo Jim Wait y las diversas actitudes y reacciones que suscita entre sus compañeros de tripulación sirven a Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) para trazar una fábula memorable acerca del hombre ante la muerte, acerca de sus valores y de sus miedos, de lo que cree y quiere creer.

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Se recoge aquí en lengua española ?por vez primera en algunos casos? , la totalidad de la narrativa breve de uno de los autores más determinantes y fundamentales del siglo xx: desde relatos en los que ensayó motivos para sus obras mayores hasta algunas de sus piezas mejor resueltas como Tifón, El cómplice secreto, o Falk, o novelas tan desconocidas por el lector en español como El colono de Malata o El alma del guerrero y, también, su obra más célebre, El corazón de las tinieblas. Conrad nos maravilla con toda una multitud de marineros, anarquistas, lúcidos locos y delirantes asesinos; el terreno en el que el hombre comienza a jugar con fuego es, definitivamente, el terreno en el que se despliegan todo el arte y el hipnótico talento de Conrad.

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Exam board: EdexcelLevel & Subject: AS and A Level English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: 2024

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The Heart of Darkness remains a literary classic, celebrated for its exploration of colonialism and human nature.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.’ When Charles Marlow agrees to captain a steamer up the Congo in search of the elusive ivory trader Mr Kurtz, it becomes a terrifying journey into both the unknown and his own subconscious. As he travels deeper and deeper into the dense jungle, he begins to sense the presence of this extraordinary and terrible man, and to question the horrifying realities of European imperialism and of human nature itself. Originally published as a three-part story in 1899, Conrad’s masterpiece has inspired many further works, including Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, and remains a thought-provoking text to this day.

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3et in the Malay Archipelago, where Conrad spent much of his youth as an officer in the British Merchant Navy, VICTORY is a sombre yet brilliant study of good and evil in Conrad's mature manner. The characteristic theme of a man reaching out from his apparently total solitude in sympathy for another human being is explored through the story of Axel Heyst's attempt to rescue a girl from the machinations of a brutal gang. Conrad's extraordinary blend of moral profundity, pathos and bitter irony is conjured up in prose which is at once atmospheric and inimitable. The book is published to coincided with the film staring Rufus Sewell Sam Neill, William Defoe and Irene Jacob

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Follow a dark and powerful journey up the Congo River in Conrad’s sharp and incisive exploration of the damages of imperialism. Life on the river is brutal, and unknown threats lurk in the darkness; the silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Marlow's mission to captain a steamer upriver into the dense interior leads him into conflict with the others who haunt the forest. But his decision to hunt down the mysterious Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader who is the subject of sinister rumours, leads him into more than just physical peril.‘Demands to be read. At its core lies the enigmatic, awesome Kurtz, and civilisation itself’ GuardianVINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

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'(Conrad) thought of civilised and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might break and let the unwary sink into fiery depths' - Bertrand Russell This selection of four tales by Conrad is about radical insecurity: lone human beings involuntarily forced into confrontation with a terrifying universe in which they can never be wholly at home. It leads with 'The End of the Tether' and includes also ' The Duel', ' The Return', and 'Amy Foster' - Sailor, Soldier, Rich Man, Immigrant. These powerful shorter works remind readers that Conrad is not just the teller of sea stories and tales of imperialist action, and not only the author of the ubiquitous 'Heart of Darkness'. This is the Conrad who is master of the terror element - global crisis, individual test, and personal trauma - in modern literature. For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder - the man knows, and can look on without a wink'Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labours further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtz's extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilization crumbling. Conrad's Heart of Darkness has been considered the most important indictment of the evils of imperialism written to date.

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'Whenever two Russians come together, the shadow of autocracy is with them...haunting the secret of their silences.' First published in 1911, Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student of philosophy who is uninvolved in politics or protest. Against his will he finds himself caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing directed against the Tsarist authorities. He is pulled in different directions - by his conscience and his ambitions, by powerful opposed political forces, but most of all by personal emotions he is unable to suppress. Set in St Petersburg and Geneva, the novel is in part a critical response to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment but it is also a startlingly modern book. Viewed through the 'Western eyes' of Conrad's English narrator, Razumov's story forces the reader to confront the same moral issues: the defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny, the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society, and the demands thrown up by the interplay of power and knowledge. This new edition is based on the first English edition text, and has a new chronology and bibliography. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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A través de la voz del marino Marlow, Conrad nos lleva hasta el corazón del África negra en pleno periodo colonial, en un sobrecogedor testimonio autobiográfico que es a la vez una meditación profunda sobre la degradación del ser humano y una ambigua denuncia de la salvaje explotación de las potencias occidentales. Marlow relata la historia de la expedición por el río Congo para repatriar a Kurtz, misterioso agente de una compañía comercial considerado un auténtico dios por las poblaciones indígenas. La mística figura de Kurtz concita todo tipo de reflexiones sobre el colonialismo europeo, la explotación de tierras y de personas y la frontera entre la civilización y la barbarie. Explorar los espacios vírgenes en los mapas, hundirse en lo desconocido revela aún más las tinieblas que anidan en el hondón del alma humana.Indiscutible obra maestra de la literatura universal ?a la que en esta edición añadimos los llamados Cuadernos del Congo del autor?, Corazón de las tinieblas es un lib

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Basada en un experiencia personal. Escrita tras su viaje al Congo en 1890. Aquel viaje, que sin duda representó para él un descenso a los infiernos, es el que nos cuenta en este libro por boca de Marlow, su alter ego, en un relato estremecedor en el que las fuerzas elementales de la naturaleza hallan su contrapartida en las fuerzas oscuras y primitivas que actuan en el interior del hombre. En este relato de una rara y subyugadora perfección estilística, Conrad parece que alcanza su objetivo como escritor: nos hace oir, sentir y ver por medio del poder de la palabra escrita.

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En 1906, dos años después de la publicación de su novela Nostromo (L 5608), un acontecimiento real, el intento de volar el Observatorio de Greenwich por parte de un anarquista llamado Martial Bourdin, inspiró a JOSEPH CONRAD el tema de un relato magistral que vería la luz al año siguiente bajo el título EL AGENTE SECRETO. Sobre el telón de fondo del Londres de comienzos de siglo, una ciudad monstruosa e indiferente en la que el autor de El corazón de las tinieblas (L 5517) encuentra espacio suficiente para localizar cualquier historia, hondura suficiente para cualquier pasión, variedad suficiente para cualquier decorado, oscuridad suficiente para enterrar cinco millones de vidas, se desarrolla la historia de un fallido atentado que revela el turbio entramado formado por el terrorismo internacional, la acción de la policía y la diplomacia deshonesta. Una profunda ironía que raya en comicidad impregna este relato intenso y armónico, imprevisiblemente dominado por una figura femenina, en

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El final de la cuerda es una de las obras menos conocidas de Joseph Conrad y, sin embargo, es una obra maestra. En ella se nos narra la peripecia vital del viejo capitán Whalley, que, en lugar de la apacible jubilación que se ha merecido, debe arrostrar la triste situación de verse arruinado, y para obtener el dinero necesario para su hija tiene que vender su pequeño barco, y hacerse de nuevo a la mar en un último y arriesgado viaje, asociado con un infame armador para el que nadie quiere navegar.Logrará Whalley su propósito, a pesar de los peligros que acechan a tan desesperada empresa? Y es que el capitán teme otra pérdida que él necesita ocultar, además de la de su fortuna, y que hace que la cuerda de la situación se vaya tensando a lo largo del relato, un secreto que haría peligrar toda su apuesta vital?Una novela magistral, emocionante e intensa, que indaga valientemente en las más altas ambiciones humanas y en sus más bajas mezquindades. Jorge Luis Borges dijo al respecto

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Whoops! Apocalypse... The Horror! The Horror! Kurtz might be the apple of every brutish imperialist's eye, but his God complex is getting wildly out of hand in the depths of the jungle. What on earth will Marlow find when he finally gets downriver? Devil worship? Savages? Heads on sticks? Or just another nutty white man with his knickers in a twist?

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This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.

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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world'In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction written in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels, to the beginning of the First World War.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.’ At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for his fearsome reputation. On his journey into the unknown Marlow takes a terrifying trip into his own subconscious, overwhelmed by his menacing, perilous and horrifying surroundings. The landscape and the people he meets force him to reflect on human nature and society, and in turn Conrad writes revealingly about the dangers of imperialism.

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In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist apparently crazed and depraved by his power over the natives, and the meeting prompts Marlowe to reflect on the darkness at the heart of all men. This short but complex and often ambiguous story, which has been the basis of several films and plays, continues to provoke interpretation and discussion.

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These five stories were collected and published as Tales of Unrest in 1898, shortly before Heart of Darkness, the first of Conrad’s major novels. Ranging from the faraway and unfamiliar, where the acquisitiveness of colonial adventure is damningly exposed, to an ostensibly ordinary London household, these disparate tales display Conrad’s ability to explore and lay bare human nature. Set in Central Africa, ‘An Outpost of Progress’ is suffused with irony and represents a ruthlessly mocking view of European imperialism. ‘Karain’ and ‘The Lagoon’ are exotic tales of the Malay Archipelago, with the former telling of disharmony and discord between Western traders and the indigenous inhabitants. ‘The Return’ recounts the story of, in the author’s own words, “a desirable middle-class town residence which somehow manages to produce a sinister effect”. The collection also includes ‘The Idiots’, the first of Conrad’s short stories to be serialized in an English magazine.

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'Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.'Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labours further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtz's extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilization crumbling.

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Joseph Conrad''s haunting Modernist masterpiece, now in the beautifully designed Penguin Clothbound Classics seriesHeart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad''s narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz, dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. What he sees on his journey, and his eventual encounter with Kurtz, horrify and perplex him, and call into question the very bases of civilization and human nature.

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Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from detachment and isolation. Featuring arguably the most interesting hero created by Conrad, Victory is both a compelling tale of adventure and a perceptive study of the power of love.

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