I do love Conrad and this book is one of the best up until the last few pages where the climax is both hurried and does not really work. The slow boil that happens in the rest of the work is fantastic. There is brilliant character building and Conrad takes a very informed walk through a few kinds ...
Conrad is perhaps my favourite (English language) writer from the turn of the last century. I find "The Secret Sharer" to be one of the greatest English language short stories ever written. And Nostromo is a favourite of mine. And yet it took me forever to get into this, considered by some to be amo...
This novel from the beginning of the 20th century is not very engaging: it's the story of a Swede called Heyst living on his own on a island in South-East Asia who encounters a miserable young lady at a hotel on a neighbouring island. He steals her away from Stromberg, the lascivious and vindictive ...
Goodreads summary: ‘It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head’ . . .Set in a desolate English port, Conrad’s spare, savage turn-of-the-century story of lives haunted by the sea. One of Conrad’s most powerful, gripping stories. ...
Goodreads summary: '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 kno...
I listened to this audiobook on Audible and loved every minute of it. Back in college at UT (Austin) I was in a Shakespeare class and we were lucky enough to have members of the Royal Shakespeare company come to our class and perform, play music, and answer our inane questions about all things Eli...
Over the summer I've collected all the Little Black Classics that were published by Penguin to celebrate their 80th birthday! Every now and then I'm reading one of them, and my reviews are mostly some thoughts about each of the books. Joseph Conrad was a new author for me, but this short story did...
Every student of literature has a few classics that somehow slipped away and didn't get read during those long years of secondary and post-secondary education. Sometimes we even believe we have read them because of the plethora of references. Heart of Darkness is one of mine, and I finally got aroun...
I enjoyed this book a lot, although it was required reading for class, I found it not only profound and eye opening but also dramatic and interesting. A classic that most people will enjoy.
I would say that this is just another story about a sea journey, but then again it was written by Joseph Conrad, and despite the three stories that I have read being about ships and journeys, I simply cannot describe it using the words 'just another'. The book in which this story was originally publ...
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