Joseph Conrad
Author
Language
English
Description
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 influence over the local people. Marlow's struggle to fathom his experience involves him in a radical questioning of not only his own nature and values but the nature and values of his society.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed cartoonist Peter Kuper delivers a powerful interpretation of this controversial classic. Heart of Darkness has unsettled generations of readers with its haunting portrait of colonialism and brutal exploitation in Africa. Now award-winning illustrator Peter Kuper reimagines Conrad's masterpiece for a new generation, transforming this dramatic tale of madness, greed, and evil into something visually immersive and profoundly complex. Drawn...
Author
Language
English
Description
Story of a British sailor haunted by a single youthful act of cowardly betrayal. To the white men in Bombay, Calcutta, and Rangoon, Jim is a man of mystery. To the primitive natives deep in the Malayan jungle, he is a god gifted with supernatural powers. To the beautiful half-caste girl who flees to his hut for protection, he is a lord to be feared and loved.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Page
Pub. Date
1927, c 1921
Language
English
Description
In the 1870's in Marseilles, France, a young and naif sailor, back from West Indies, is engaged by a couple of conspirators to smuggle guns and ammunition for the Carlist army, with the idea of putting King Carlos back in the throne of Spain.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 88
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
In a tale of a South American revolution, an Italian named Nostromo is the most feared man at the headquarters of a great silver mine. He successfully removes the silver treasure but informs everyone involved that it has gone down on a sunken ship.
9) Lord Jim
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p1993
Language
English
Description
An English sailor, haunted by his act of cowardice and desertion, seeks redemption in the islands of the Far East.
Publisher
TUTM
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assigns an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang.
15) Apocalypse now
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.