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Joseph Conrad
Author
Publication Date
1899
Lexile Measure
910L
Summary
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide. The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned...
2) Lord Jim
Author
Publication Date
1920
Lexile Measure
1120L
Summary
Adventures of a sailor who prowls the unmapped jungles of the Far East in search of the feudal warlord who is terrorizing the peace-loving natives.
Author
Publication Date
1921
Summary
Geneva, a haven for exiles and plotters, becomes the claustrophobic stage for a profound drama of political and personal guilt. Razumov, a solitary and earnest student in St. Petersburg, is no revolutionary. His only ambition is academic success and a quiet, sanctioned life. But when a fellow student, the assassin Victor Haldin, bursts into his rooms seeking refuge, Razumov's fate is sealed in an instant of panic and betrayal.
Desperate to protect...
Author
Publication Date
1917
Summary
"Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea-captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. This is indeed a work full of 'sudden passion', in which Conrad...
Author
Publication Date
1928
Summary
This is Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel, "The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale". Set in London in 1886, it concerns Mr. Adolf Verloc, a spy who works for an unknown country. The novel is significant as it was one of Conrad's later political novels, representing a divergence from his earlier stories of seafaring. "The Secret Agent" deals with ideas of anarchism, terrorism, espionage, and exploitation. Modern Library ranked it the 46th most significant novel...
