joseph conrad ebook

„A Smile of Fortune” is located on a beautiful island in the Pacific Ocean, on which the narrator, captain docked; ship suppliers are supposedly brothers who have not talked to each other for 18 years. One of the brothers, Ernest, is an assimilated citizen. He owes a lot of money, has parties, has taste and manners, and is trusted. He treats the half-blood servants as cruelly as the rest of the colonists....

"Zwycięstwo" to powieść Josepha Conrada, wybitnego angielskiego pisarza polskiego pochodzenia. Powieść opisuje losy samotnego Szweda, Axela Heysta który spędza większość czasu na odosobnieniu na tropikalnej wyspie. Kiedyś pracował dla firmy Tropical Belt Coal Company, ale gdy zmarł właściciel, Morrison, firma przeszła w stan likwidacji. Heyst wegetuje, na co dzień widując się z kilkoma tubylcami....

Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton’s „Summer” created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman’s sexual awakening. Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking adoptive father. Their isolated village stifles her, and his behavior increasingly disturbs her. When a young...