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Within the Tides – ebook
Joseph Conrad
This is a collection of small stories. The events of all four stories develop in the sea. Although these stories and inherent supernatural phenomena, but there are no ghosts. Three stories of four show us a rude hero who does not want to be revealed deeply. The other, Partner, shows what happens to you if you are NOT a rude individualist.Data dostępności:
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The Inheritors – ebook
Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Hueffer
„The Inheritors” is a little-known book of two main British writers. The plot is based on a political scheme to undermine the British Empire, based on a Congo-like colonial enterprise and manipulated by journalists. The main character claims that she is from the Fourth Dimension and works to replace the human race.Data dostępności:
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Tales of Hearsay – ebook
Joseph Conrad
This collection of four stories. One of the stories is Prince Roman. It tells about the Polish people and their hero. The conversation was about aristocracy. How did this discredited item come about? However, neither the great Florentine artist, who did not close his eyes at death while thinking about his city, nor Saint Francis, who blessed the city of Assisi with his last breath, were barbarians...Data dostępności:
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An Outcast of the Islands – ebook
Joseph Conrad
This book is somewhere morally difficult to read. It describes the travails of women. Peter Willems, a Dutchman by birth, a poor boy, leaves his miserable, joyless home in order to seek a better, more prosperous future. The sea will be a salvation for the boy. on the ship, he will find his home and his comrades in life.Data dostępności:
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Nowele i opowiadania – ebook
Joseph Conrad
Na tom opowiadań Josepha Conrada składają się m.in. takie utwory jak „Laguna”, „Placówka postępu”, „Falk. Wspomnienie” czy „Amy Foster”. Tematyka „Placówki postępu”, podobnie jak późniejszego „Jądra ciemności”, przenosi czytelnika do afrykańskiej dżungli ery kolonializmu. Biali handlarze pozyskują od miejscowej ludności cenną kość słoniową. Jednak zapędy kolonizatorów sięgają dużo dalej, co wkrótce...Data dostępności:
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Heart of Darkness – ebook
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness, the novella by Joseph Conrad, is essentially a multi-layered narrative. The Narrator describes a night spent on a ship in the mouth of the Thames River in England. Marlow, one of the men on board, tells of his time spent as a riverboat pilot in the Belgian Congo. On the surface it is the adventurous story of Marlow’s search for Kurtz, who for him is a living legend. On one hand it...Data dostępności:
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The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ – ebook
Joseph Conrad
The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ was written in 1896 and is loosely based on Conrad’s own experiences as a sailor; in 1884, Conrad made a voyage on the real Narcissus from Bombay to Dunkirk as a Second Mate, and some of the events described in his novella may be based on adversities Conrad and his fellow-sailers had to contend with. And yet, Conrad’s third novel is much more than „just” an accout of adventures...Data dostępności:
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5 najpiękniejszych powieści – ebook
Joseph Conrad
Tom zawiera pięć najpiękniejszych powieści Josepha Conrada, angielskiego pisarza i publicysty polskiego pochodzenia. Problematykę jego utworów prozatorskich można określić jako psychologiczną. Conrad stawia rozmaite pytania moralne. Jakie są granice odpowiedzialności człowieka w obliczu zagrożenia przychodzącego z zewnątrz? Jakim próbom charakteru jest w stanie sprostać człowiek? Jakie jest znaczenie...Data dostępności:
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Notes on Life and Letters – ebook
Joseph Conrad
This book is a collection of some of Konrad’s reviews and writings. The collection is divided into two parts, primarily the sections „Letters”, its reviews. The second section is called Life, but this is only true in a limited sense. It contains Conrad’s views on some of the pressing political issues of the day. They range from the Russo-Japanese War and the question of the independence of Poland to...Data dostępności:
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Prince Roman – ebook
Joseph Conrad
Prince Roman is a Pole who relinquishes his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as an unknown soldier, resisting Russian oppression. In captivity, he has every opportunity to avoid punishment, but he declares his unconditional commitment to the liberation of Poland. As a result, he suffers a quarter century in the imperial equivalent of the Gulag – Siberian mines in the ninth century,...Data dostępności:
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