Six Short Stories

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Greg Wagland

This wide-ranging collection comprises the following six short stories by Joseph Conrad:

• Youth: A Narrative (1902)
• Karain: A Memory (1898)
• An Outpost of Progress (1898)
• The Lagoon (1898)
• Amy Foster (1909)
• The Anarchist - A Desperate Tale (1903)

Youth: A Narrative is an epic tale of a perilous voyage under sail to Bangkok, with a cargo of coal, narrated by Charles Marlow.

An Outpost of Progress, a darkly comic tale, set in an African ivory-trading station, is very much a prelude to Heart of Darkness.

Amy Foster is about a Polish man shipwrecked on the English coast and his subsequent alienation, loneliness and love.

The Lagoon and Karain: A Memory are gripping tales from the Malay archipelago.

The Anarchist charts the journey of a skilled mechanic from Paris to a desolate cattle station in South America, via Devil's Island.

Public Domain (P)2013 Magpie Audio

You could have cut the humidity with a knife

The story 'An Outpost of Progress' alone would be worth the price of admission alone. There were a couple of others that didn't grab me in that special - atmosphere dripping heavily from every page - Conrad way I love, but hey, they can't all be bloody brilliant.

Spellbinding!

With this collection I returned to Conrad decades after reading Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness. Glad I did! These six stories are masterworks. Conrad's majestic prose is as full of memorable phrases as the Book of Psalms, and his ability to bring deeply extraordinary characters to life in a few words rivals Shakespeare's. Greg Wagland's reading captures the feel of each story's raconteur with quiet precision. I was grateful for the absence of a Downton Abbey upper-class accent which mars most of Audible's other Conrad recordings. A truly spellbinding offering.

Hard times

Conrad writes about people living on the edge, in desperation or lost in an indifferent world.

Conrad’s stories come fully alive

Three short stories, masterfully read. Each has a few vivid characters and fascinating, Unique, memorable story line

Varied selection of stories.

Varied selection of stories, all but one concerning sailing and adventure in the wide world beyond Europe, during the heyday of colonialism. Good stuff.