Lord Jim / The Nigger Of The 'Narcissus' / Typhoon / Nostromo / The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
A set of intense, tightly observed narratives that probe courage, guilt, and moral ambiguity against settings of stormy seas, colonial frontiers, and urban political tension. Using framed narrators and vivid natural description, these stories follow sailors, adventurers, and conspirators as crises—tempest, shipboard disaster, violent politics, or economic upheaval—reveal the fragile line between heroism and cowardice and the corrosive effects of ambition, loyalty, and social injustice on conscience. Rich in psychological insight and ironic distance, they examine personal responsibility and the moral costs of action and inaction in worlds where law and stability are precarious.
- Published
- 1897
- Nationality
- British
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- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- English
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- Lord Jim
- Nostromo
- The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
- The Secret Agent
- Typhoon
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