B.H. Blackwell

B.H. Blackwell
Author: B.H. Blackwell Ltd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1444
Release: 1936
Genre: Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN:

Under Western Eyes

Under Western Eyes
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1911
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official. Asked to spy on the family of the assassin -- his close friend -- he must come to terms with timeless questions of accountability and human integrity.

The Secret Sharer

The Secret Sharer
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Modernista
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2024-07-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9181080913

»The Secret Sharer« is a short story by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1910. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, and ended his career as a captain in the English merchant navy. His most famous work is the novella Heart of Darkness [1899], adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979 as Apocalypse Now.