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«El fascinante atractivo de Suspense es que refleja de manera apasionante un mundo a la espera, un mundo a las puertas de algo, un mundo aún por venir.» (Mercedes Monmany - ABCD) Suspense es la últim

En rentrant chez lui après une journée de travail, Alvan Hervey découvre avec stupeur que sa femme l'a quitté. À la surprise et l'incompréhension succède la colère. Mais voilà que l'infidèle revient. La confrontation peut commencer. Une nouvelle cruelle et intimiste dans les brumes londoniennes.

Los cuatro relatos reunidos en este volumen fueron publicados en 1925, un año después de la muerte de Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). El papel del honor, la dignidad y la lealtad en una sociedad dominada aun por valores romanticos es el hilo conductor de estos cuentos.EL ALMA DEL GUERRERO y El principe Roman suponen el regreso al mundo eslavo de la infancia y juventud del autor, mientras que La historia y El piloto negro son nuevas incursiones en los ilimitados horizontes del mar, fuente inagotable para Conrad de argumentos y de nostalgia.Los cuatro relatos reunidos en este volumen fueron publicados en 1925, un año después de la muerte de Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). El papel del honor, la dignidad y la lealtad en una sociedad dominada aun por valores romanticos es el hilo conductor de estos cuentos.EL ALMA DEL GUERRERO y El principe Roman suponen el regreso al mundo eslavo de la infancia y juventud del autor, mientras que La historia y El piloto negro son nuevas incursiones en los ilimitados horizontes del mar, fuente inagotable para Conrad de argumentos y de nostalgia.

«Ah, l''horror! L''horror!» són les últimes paraules que l''agent comercial Kurtz pronuncia poc abans de morir. Marlow, temps després, obligat juntament amb la resta de la tripulació del Nellie a esp

Tejida en torno a una anécdota mínima –el viaje que por el río Congo hace Marlow para relevar a Kurtz, un agente comercial que se halla gravemente enfermo–, El corazón de las tinieblas constituye una

Considerada por algunos críticos la gran novela inglesa del siglo XIX, Nostromo (1904) es un apasionante relato en el que la peripecia política se entrevera con la pintura de emociones y caracteres humanos, de la que Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) fue gran maestro, y el fascinante ingrediente de la aventura. La narracion novelesca del nacimiento del estado de Sulaco, en la imaginaria Costaguana, muestra los riesgos que supone la audacia tanto en la accion individual como en el ambito intelectual, al tiempo que es la alegoria de un problema de honda raiz humana: la pugna dramatica entre los intereses materiales y los valores espirituales.

One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo reenacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. In the harbor town of Sulaco, a vivid cast of characters is caught up in a civil war to decide whether its fabulously wealthy silver mine, funded by American money but owned by a third-generation English immigrant, can be preserved from the hands of venal politicians. Greed and corruption seep into the lives of everyone, and Nostromo, the principled foreman of the mine, is tested to the limit. Conrad''s evocation of Latin America--its grand landscapes, the ferocity of its politics, and the tenacity of individuals swept up in imperial ambitions--has never been bettered. This edition features a new introduction with fresh historical and interpretative perspectives, as well as detailed explanatory notes which pay special attention to the literary, political, historical, and geographical allusions and implications of the novel. A map, a chronology of the narrative, a glossary of foreign terms, and an appendix reprinting the serial ending all complement what is sure to be the definitive edition of this classic work. Jacques Berthoud has edited four Conrad novels, including Lord Jim for OWC. He is the author of Joseph Conrad, the Major Phase, and of numerous essays on Elizabethan drama, Laurence Sterne, W. B. Yeats and others. Mara Kalnins is the General Editor of the all Conrad editions in the Oxford World''s Classics series, and the main editor of Victory.

Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--''as unflinching as a hero in a book''--who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from an eastern port. His life is ruined: an isolated scandal has assumed horrifying proportions. But, then he is befriended by an older man named Marlow who helps to establish him in exotic Patusan, a remote Malay settlement where his courage is put to the test once more. Lord Jim is a book about courage and cowardice, self-knowledge and personal growth. It is one of the most profound and rewarding psychological novels in English. Set in the context of social change and colonial expansion in late Victorian England, it embodies in Jim the values and turmoil of a fading empire. This new edition uses the first English edition text and includes a new introduction and notes by leading Conrad scholar Jacques Berthoud, glossaries, and an appendix on Conrad''s sources and reading.

El estudiante ruso Razumov se ve envuelto en un atentado cometido por un compañero revolucionario al que acaba delatando a la policía. Empleando similar dureza contra la perversidad de las autoridades zaristas y la crueldad de los revolucionarios, Conrad reconstruye el drama psicologico del delator, que se agudiza aun mas cuando este es enviado a Ginebra para inflitrarse en la organizacion a la que pertenecia el activista traicionado. Su lucha interior para convivir con el remordimiento acaba convirtiendose en una patologia que afecta a su salud mental y fisica. Pero entre las multiples lecturas posibles tambien esta la del hombre desamparado, que no puede confiar en las despoticcs funcionarios rusos que le encargan la mision ni en los opositores en el exilio a los que se ve oblligado a traicionar. Narrada desde la perspectiva occidental de un ingles afincado en la capital suiza, Bajo la mirada de Occidente esta a la altura de las grandes novelas de Conrad como Lord Jim, El agente secreto o El corazon de las tinieblas. Catalina Martinez Muñoz ha realizado una nueva traduccion expresamente para esta edicion de REY LEAR. Como dice en el prologo el novelista Oscar Esquivias, Bajo la mirada de Occidente es una de las obras mayores de Conrad. Quien no la conozca no deberia demorar mas su lectura.

This volume contains ''Typhoon,'' ''The Secret Sharer,'' ''Falk,'' and ''Amy Foster.'' ''Typhoon'', a story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest, is a masterpiece of descriptive virtuosity and moral irony, while ''The Secret Sharer'' excels in symbolic ambiguity. Both stories vividly present Conrad''s abiding preoccupation with the theme of solidarity, challenged from without by the elements and from within by human doubts and fears. Conrad''s experiences as a captain of the ship Otago in 1888 provided material for both ''The Secret Sharer'' and ''Falk''. ''Amy Foster'', written in 1901, is bleak and stark in its depiction of human isolation and incomprehension. In a range of tones extending from the sombre to the radiant, Conrad''s central preoccupations are displayed at their best, strangest, and most plangent in this selection of stories. Cedric Watts is an authority on Conrad and the author of numerous books and articles on Conrad including Joseph Conrad: A Literary Life (1989), A Preface to Conrad (2nd edn 1993), and Joseph Conrad (1994). For OWC he has edited Heart of Darkness and Other Tales and other Conrad books for other publishers, most recently Lord Jim for Broadview Press.

Joseph Conrad Retold by James Butler Activities by Louis Vaughan Human interest Marlow, a merchant sailor, travels through colonial Africa. He makes a perilous journey by steamboat to rescue Kurtz, an agent, who is seriously ill. He arrives at Kurtzs station to find that the agent has taken control of the whole area. In his complete isolation from civilised society Kurtz has instituted a brutal system of human sacrifice and magic to enthral the natives. Dossiers: Conrad and the Colonial Experience and others Exit test

Dans Folioplus classiques, le texte intégral, enrichi d'une lecture d'image, écho pictural de l'oeuvre, est suivi de sa mise en perspective organisée en six points : - Vie littéraire : De la nouvelle - L'écrivain à sa table de travail : Conrad et le récit de mer - Groupement de textes thématiques : Moi et l'autre - Groupement de textes stylistiques : Les mots de la mer - Chronologie : Joseph Conrad et son temps - Fiche : Des pistes pour rendre compte de sa lecture Recommandé pour les classes de collège.

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l'émerveillement et la joie de naviguer, mais aussi, parfois, le désenchantement et la révolte, tels sont les aspects singuliers de ce livre de conrad, qui navigua pendant vingt ans avant de devenir écrivain. il y déploie un témoignage à la fois ébloui, nostalgique et lucide sur sa relation avec la mer et les navires, perçus comme des créatures vivantes et sensibles dont il importe de se montrer digne. en même temps défilent des évocations d'escales, d'épisodes de mer, de navires, de grands vents et de silhouettes de marins rencontrés, pendant l'ultime âge d'or de la marine à voile.

La colaboración literaria entre Joseph Conrad y Ford Madox Ford que «hicieron para transformar la prosa inglesa lo que Flaubert había hecho para cambiar la prosa francesa», en opinión de Ezra Pound d

This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero.

Horror awaits Marlow, a seaman assigned by an ivory company to retrieve a cargo boat and one of its employees, Mr. Kurtz who is stranded in the heart of the Africa, deep in the Belgian Congo. Marlow's journey up the brooding dark river soon becomes a struggle to maintain his own sanity as he witnesses the brutalization of the natives by white traders and discovers the enigmatic Mr. Kurtz. Kurtz, once a genius and the company's most successful representative, has become a savage. His compound is decorated by a row of human heads mounted on spears. The demonic mastermind, liberated from the conventions of European culture, has traded his soul to become ruler of his own horrific dominion.

El socio reúne una buena parte de las características de la obra de Joseph Conrad, si bien en esta ocasión el escenario no es una gran aventura. Se trata de un relato construido en diferentes planos y escrito con un estilo agil, de gran originalidad. Un hombre de dudosa condicion moral embauca a su honrado e ingenuo socio para hundir un barco de su propiedad y asi poder cobrar la prima del seguro. Lo central en esta historia es el juego de tensiones psicologicas, desarrollado con maestria y rematado con un final de accion trepidante.

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, Verloc must deal with the repercussions of his actions.