The Shadow Line

Joseph Conrads berühmtester Roman "Lord Jim": eine mitreißende Abenteuererzählung, ein KlassikerJim zieht als Schiffsausrüster umher. Als Erster Offizier auf einem Pilgerschiff beging er einen schrecklichen Fehler, der ihn Ruf und Laufbahn kostete. Nach langen Reisen erreicht er die entlegene Insel Patusan im Indischen Ozean und erwirbt sich das Vertrauen der Einheimischen, die ihn als Friedensstifter hoch verehren. Aus Jim wird Lord Jim. Doch dann tauchen Piraten auf, und sie scheinen zu wissen, wer er wirklich ist. Joseph Conrads berühmtester Roman hat viele Facetten: eine psychologische Charakterstudie über einen, der vom Heldentum träumt und doch moralisch versagt; eine mitreißende Abenteuererzählung; und nicht zuletzt eine erschütternde Parabel auf die Zerstörungswut des Kolonialismus. (lib)

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext - mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Eine Reise in den Dschungel Afrikas offenbart menschliche Abgründe und lässt einen Seemann am kolonialen System zweifeln. Denn Joseph Conrads kurzer Roman »Herz der Finsternis« zeigt: Dunkelheit kann überall und in jedem lauern. Englische Lektüre: Niveau C1 (GER) Sprachen: Englisch, Deutsch

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe.Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors, and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that Conrad's fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events.Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew, among other things, on his native Poland's national experiences and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche.Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called heart of Africa. Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between what Conrad calls "the greatest town on earth", London, and Africa as places of darkness.Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between so-called civilized people and those described as savages; Heart of Darkness raises questions about imperialism and racism.Originally issued as a three-part serial story in Blackwood's Magazine to celebrate the thousandth edition of the magazine, Heart of Darkness has been widely re-published and translated into many languages. It provided the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness 67th on their list of the 100 best novels in English of the twentieth century. (wikipedia.org)

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.

Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such r s1he defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny and the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society. This new edition uses the English first edition text and has a new bibliography and chronology. (lib)

Joseph Conrad: Im Taifun / Amy Foster. Zwei Erzählungen Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2020. »Typhoon« und »Amy Foster« - Erstdruck 1903. Hier in der Übersetzung von Elise Eckert, Stuttgart, 1908 in der Reihe »Engelhorns allgemeine Romanbibliothek«, Jahrgang 24, Band 24. Der Text der vorliegenden Ausgabe wurde behutsam an die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung angepasst. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Ivan Aivazovsky, Hurrikan auf einem Meer, 1899. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.