Acclaimed as a supreme literary achievement, this profoundly influential novel journeys toward the settlement of the demonic Mr. Kurtz, the genius who would represent the best of Europe---but who, turned by the colonial experience to ...

Joseph Conrads first novel charts the decline of a Dutch merchant in Malaya. Refusing to accept the financial ruin that he has precipitated, Almayer devolves into fantasies of wealth and renewed youth.

Joseph Conrad's classic novel about a man's lifelong efforts to atone for an act of instinctive cowardice set the style for a whole class of literature.

Joseph Conrad's multilayered masterpiece tells of one nation's violent revolution and one hero's moral degeneration. Conrad convincingly invents an entire country, Costaguana, and sets it afire as warlords compete for power and a fort...