Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness & other works (8 books)

JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.

Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on his native Poland's national experiences and on his personal experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world, while plumbing the depths of the human soul. Appreciated early on by literary cognoscenti, his fiction and nonfiction have gained an almost prophetic cachet in the light of subsequent national and international disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries.


With one exception, the following files are all PDFs or retail ePUBs. The exception is the most recent edition of Conrad's COMPLETE WORKS, compiled and handsomely presented by Pynch and posted on mobileread.com

* COMPLETE WORKS (Sept 2013). Compiled and edited by Pynch. -- ePUB

* COMPLETE WORKS (Delphi Classics, 2012). -- ePUB

* HEART OF DARKNESS (Norton Critical Edition, 2005). Fourth edition, edited by Paul B. Armstrong. -- PDF

* HEART OF DARKNESS & SELECTED SHORT FICTION (Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003). Edited with an Introduction and Notes by A. Michael Martin. -- ePUB

* LORD JIM: A Tale (Penguin Classics, 2007). Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Allan H. Simmons. -- ePUB

* LORD JIM & NOSTROMO (Modern Library, 1999). Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan. -- ePUB

* NOSTROMO: A Tale of the Seaboard (Oxford World's Classics, 2007). Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jacques Berthoud and Mara Kalnins. -- PDF

* THE SECRET AGENT (Modern Library, 1993). -- ePUB