Джозеф Конрад — книжные серии

Джозеф Конрад - выдающийся английский романист, пример редкой писательской судьбы: поляк по национальности, выучивший английский язык уже в зрелом возрасте, он становится классиком английской литературы. Конрад написал около тридцати книг о своих морских путешествиях и приключениях. Неоромантик, мастер психологической прозы, он по-своему пересоздал приключенческий жанр и оказал огромное влияние на литературу XX века. В числе его учеников - Хемингуэй, Фолкнер, Грэм Грин, Паустовский. В этом томе публикуется роман "Прыжок за борт" (в оригинале "Лорд Джим"). Его главный герой, Джим, с детства мечтал о море. Но когда мечта сбылась и он стал…

Человек, победивший стихию и терпящий поражение в борьбе с самим собой. В романе "На отмелях", в 1920 году, закончившем собою серию романов о капитане Лингарде, Конрад, говорит о своем давнем герое: "Он не привык предаваться анализу своих ощущений. Он предпочитал бороться с обстоятельствами и старался делать это и сейчас. Но сейчас ему не хватало той уверенности, которая есть половина победы. Борьба была его родной стихией, но такой борьбы он до сих пор не ведал. Это была борьба внутри его собственной души. С ним сражались тайные силы, невидимые враги. Они находились внутри его самого. Что-то или кто-то ему изменил. Он стал прислушиваться, желая обнаружить изменника, и вдруг в его затуманенном уме отчетливо пронеслась мысль "Да ведь это я сам".

Проза Джозефа Конрада похожа на художественное описание картины, где автор мазок за мазком добавляет детали, любовно выписывая каждую.
Ещё одна авантюрно-приключенческая история, про Тома Лингарда и его подопечных. С сильными героями, где есть и любовь, и дружба, и предательство. На этот раз главное действующее лицо Питер Виллемс.

В том вошли два произведения Д. Конрада. «Негр с "Нарцисса"» самый морской из ранних романов Конрада. В центре повествования торговое судно "Нарцисс", возвращающееся домой в Великобританию. Яркие персонажи, предательство, шторм, лень и трудолюбие. И, конечно, негр Джемс Уэйт, отлынивающий от работы, прикинувшись больным. «Теневая черта: Признание» — повесть о человеке и о море, о его мужестве, воле, храбрости, порядочности. Молодой офицер торгового флота, поляк по происхождению, внезапно принимает решение списаться с корабля и вернуться из Юго-Восточной Азии домой. Но поступает предложение взять под командование: судно, капитан которого…

Первый роман из цикла «Капитан Лингард», куда входят также романы «Изгнанник» (англ. An Outcast of the Islands, 1896) и «Спасатели» (англ. Rescue, 1920). Неудавшийся торговец Олмэйр, живущий в небольшой деревне на берегу океана на острове Борнео. Он является представителем знаменитого капитана Тома Лингарда, которого в этих местах называют «Владыкой морей». Лингард убеждает Олмэйра, что в глубине острова залегает золотая жила. Поверив Лингарду, Олмэйр согласился жениться на его приёмной дочери. Однако золото не находится, а Лингард куда-то исчезает. Уже в дебютном произведении Конрад проявил себя сильным психологом и хорошим рассказчиком.

«Секретный агент» Конрада — не детектив в привычном смысле слова. В романе на первый план выведены характеры героев, их душевное состояние и переживания. Увлекает напряженная интрига, и выразительные действующие лица, глубокий психологический анализ сторонников террора. Мы видим трагедию одиночки, роковую игру человека с Судьбой, проклятие золота, и дихотомию Восток-Запад.

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Joseph Conrad 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 stylist, both lush and precise, who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Typhoon is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a storm of incredible fury.

Joseph Conrad 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. A Set of Six II contains three stories including An Anarchista, Il Condea and The Duel, both satiric and deeply sad tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleonic Wars.

Joseph Conrad 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. A Set of Six I contains three stories including The Informeran, The Brutean and Gaspar Ruiz, an enthralling novel of inspirational rise from obscurity to light.

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Joseph Conrad 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 stylist, both lush and precise, who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Taking place mostly in Africa, Heart of Darkness tells the story of Europeans going to the Congo in search of ivory. However, the deep recesses of the jungle do something to a man, change him, and somehow demoralization begins.

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Joseph Conrad 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 stylist, both lush and precise, who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Tales of Unrest I is the collection of short stories where a reader will find many of Conrad's most frequently explored themes: isolation, distinctions between East and West, between colonial and native, a discernment and critique of civilization.

Joseph Conrad 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 stylist, both lush and precise, who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. The Shadow Line tells a story of young sea captain, whose first command brings with it a succession of crises: sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fewer, and his first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the spirit of a previous captain.

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