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A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.

In Rover, we meet the weary and reflective Peyrol, an elderly ex-privateer who, burdened by his past, is compelled by an impulsive mix of scorn and magnanimity to embark on a dangerously audacious scheme. His goal? To deceive Admiral Nelson into lifting his blockade of the French coast during the tumultuous Napoleonic Wars. Set against the haunting backdrop of a politically motivated massacre in Toulon in 1793, this poignant tale explores the deep scars left on a small community and its inhabitants. Written towards the end of Conrads life, and shortly after the Great War—a conflict that ...

In this poignant tale by Joseph Conrad, we delve into the theme of alienation as a young foreign man washes ashore after a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England. Shunned by most of the townsfolk, he finds solace in the unexpected kindness of Miss Foster—a loving, albeit simple-hearted woman. Join us as we explore the complexities of acceptance and the human spirit in this classic narrative. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Point of Honor tells the gripping tale of two French Hussar officers, DHubert and Feraud. What begins as a minor dispute over honor spirals into a relentless and bitter rivalry that spans fifteen years. Initially, it is Feraud who fiercely defends his honor, relentlessly pursuing DHubert for a duel after their first encounter ends without resolution. However, as the years pass, DHubert finds himself ensnared in this escalating conflict, unable to retreat from the challenge. Inspired by the real-life duels of two Hussar officers named ...

Typhoon is a gripping short novel by Joseph Conrad, first begun in 1899 and later published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. This classic maritime tale follows Captain Macwhirr as he bravely navigates the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into the heart of a ferocious typhoon. Among the crew are the youthful Jukes and Solomon, the steadfast head engineer. Conrad masterfully captures the essence of sea-faring life at the dawn of the 20th century. As Macwhirr grapples with emotional distance from his family and crew, his unwavering determination in the face of natures overwhelming power commands a ...

Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous wars of South American independence, Gaspar Ruiz tells the gripping tale of a former Spanish soldier caught in a storm of betrayal, intrigue, and identity. As he navigates the chaos of war, Gaspars journey unfolds through a labyrinth of political machinations and personal conflicts, challenging his loyalties and sense of self. Join him as he confronts the forces that seek to define him in a world on the brink of transformation. - Summary by kirk202

The story tells of Jim, a young, good-looking, genial, and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. One night, when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink, acting on impulse, Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat, which happens to be bearing the unscrupulous captain and his cohorts away from the disaster.

Penguin Classics presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by David Threlfall, the star of the hit Channel 4 series, Shameless. 'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything...

First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad’s two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book “a very intimate revelation...I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour’s confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the inscrutable Gods send to mortals, went on unreasoning and invincible, surviving the test of disillusion, defying the disenchantment that lurks in every day of a strenuous life"....

Dark allegory describes Marlow's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with and fascination by Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. A masterly blend of adventure, character development and psychological penetration. Considered by many to be Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story.

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....

Exclusively from Audible. The Secret Agent is based on an actual attempt made in 1894 to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. A labyrinth of greed, corruption, and betrayal, it is the most darkly humorous of all Conrad's tales. It follows a European secret agent, Adolf Verloc, 'a London shop owner' with anarchist leanings who becomes reluctantly involved in a plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. Full of great characters, melodramatic irony and psychological intrigue the tale is far from simple....

Under Western Eyes, Conrad's novel of political treachery and oppression, begins with a bomb that kills a hated Russian minister of police along with innocent bystanders. A young student named Razumov hides the perpetrator, then betrays him and becomes a spy among his exiled comrades. He faces a moral dilemma from which there is no escape. This masterwork, published six years before the Russian Revolution, is a chillingly accurate prophecy of what was to come.

From one of the greatest modern writers in world literature comes a magnificent story of love, adventure, and rescue played out against the shimmering South Seas. Alone on a tropical island, a Swedish baron and a beautiful violinist discover the long-lost joys of love. But when two treasure hunters arrive on the beach, the lovers know that evil has invaded their romantic paradise—an evil they are powerless to stop.

Typhoon is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest and of the captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. Captain MacWhirr was an ordinary man. However, when his steamer Nan-Shan blunders into a hurricane, he and his crew must pull together to survive. The steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate becomes a partnership vital to human survival as they are challenged from without by the elements, and from within by human doubts and fears.

One of the great adventure novels of our language creates a most engaging central character, Nostromo. A picturesque man of action and popular hero, Nostromo lives to be "well-spoken of" by the citizens of Costaguana, the mythical South American banana republic where the story takes place. Around this figure, Conrad spins a story of revolution, politics, and racial conflict as complex as Nostromo, the man whose greatest enemy is himself.

When Jim, a young merchant seaman, joins a ship carrying Muslims to Mecca, he's flush with heroic daydreams. But after only a few days aboard, the Patna hits something in the night and begins to take on water. In a crucial moment that tests his courage, Jim cowers and abandons ship rather than risk his life to save the pilgrims. Tried for shameful dereliction of duty, the guilt-ridden Englishman sets forth to make amends for his past in the remote territory of Patusan.

Jim, the first mate aboard a small steamer named the Patna, travels from port to port in the Pacific Ocean. When the ship hits floating wreckage, Jim and the crew are forced to abandon it, leaving hundreds of ethnic travelers onboard. However, Jim's reprehensible actions are soon discovered by the court, and he is compelled to face his guilt and redeem himself - a journey that leads him to a remote exotic location where he is revered as the Lord, "Tuan Jim".

Typhoon is the story of an old steamer and a veteran captain. The captain is normally calm and in control but the ship's sudden envelopment by a typhoon brings out both the best characteristics and the worst of the captain and his crew. This story is a penetrating look at the human spirit in the face of disaster - a recurring theme in Conrad's works.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Luke Norris, known for his role in BBC drama Poldark. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Michael Newton. In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human...