Joseph Conrad audiobooks
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph ConradHeart of Darkness is a novella written by the Polish writer Joseph Conrad. Charles Marlow is appointed as the captain of steamboat by an Ivory trading company and he narrates his experience traveling across the Congo river and fascination to meet Mr.Kurtz, who rules the region...
The Secret Agent
by Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad moves away from his array of sea fiction novels with The Secret Agent, which narrates the story of spy, who ruins his family life in an attempt to prove his capabilities as a spy. Mr. Verloc, a secret agent is in danger of losing his job under tremendous pressure from his superior Mr. Vladimir. Meanwhile a science laboratory is explod..
Lord Jim
by Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad's sea fiction Lord Jim narrates the story of a young aspiring sailors transformation from cowardliness to bravery. Lord Jim, a deputy captains of a pilgrimage ship is put to humiliation, when the crew was escaping while the ship was about to sink. Unable to erase his memories of humiliation, he accepts the challenge of getting deputed..
Typhoon
by Joseph ConradTyphoon is a classic sea yarn, possibly based upon Conrad's actual experience of seaman's life, and probably on a real incident aboard of the steamer John P. Best (according to the book by Jerry Allen on the "Sea years of Joseph Conrad", first published in 1965). The author of the mentioned book - an American journalist - did not reveal in her book..
Amy Foster
by Joseph ConradAmy Foster is a short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1901, first published in the Illustrated London News , and collected in Typhoon and Other Stories . A poor emigrant from Central Europe sailing from Hamburg to America is shipwrecked off the coast of England. The residents of nearby villages, at first unaware of the sinking, and hence of t..
Chance
by Joseph ConradChance is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1913 following serial publication the previous year. Although the novel was not one upon which Conrad's later critical reputation was to depend, it was his greatest commercial success upon initial publication. Chance is narrated by Conrad's regular narrator, Charles Marlow, but is characterised by a ..
An Outcast Of The Islands
by Joseph ConradAn Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust ..
Almayer's Folly
by Joseph ConradAlmayer's Folly, published in 1895, is Joseph Conrad's first novel. Set in the late 19th century, it centres on the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to his mixed heritage daughter Nina. Almayer’s Folly is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. He ..