Heart of Darkness / Youth / Typhoon
by Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad came to writing after having been a sailor for nearly twenty years. The three long stories in this volume were composed early in his literary career, a few years after a grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo as the commander of a river steamer. "Youth" (1898) is the first of Conrad's stories to feature Captain Marlow, later the narrator of "Heart of Darkness", Lord Jim, and Chance. "Heart of Darkness" (1899), Marlow's story of his journey into the jungle to find Kurtz, show more the tormented white trader, becomes a multileveled commentary on colonialism, evil, and the unknown, emblemized in Kurtz's dying words: "The horror! The horror!" The complex moral issues posed by these tales, and by "Typhoon" (1901), a masterpiece about a storm at sea, anticipated many of the concerns of the later twentieth century. Francis Coppola appropriated Marlow and Kurtz for Apocalypse Now, his movie about the Vietnam War. show lessTags
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2 short novels and one short story.
"Heart of Darkness"-Enjoyed the story. I read it as a contrast between Marlow, the teller-of-the tale, and Kurtz the man he goes to meet. I will read this again because I love Conrad's language.
"Youth"-is an adventure story about a coal ship and the young man experiencing it. Even though bad things happen to the ship, the young man enjoys the adventure.
"Typhoon"--is the story of a quiet Captain getting his steamship through the China sea during a typhoon. The tale of the storm is harrowing.
"Heart of Darkness"-Enjoyed the story. I read it as a contrast between Marlow, the teller-of-the tale, and Kurtz the man he goes to meet. I will read this again because I love Conrad's language.
"Youth"-is an adventure story about a coal ship and the young man experiencing it. Even though bad things happen to the ship, the young man enjoys the adventure.
"Typhoon"--is the story of a quiet Captain getting his steamship through the China sea during a typhoon. The tale of the storm is harrowing.
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Joseph Conrad is recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novelists. He was born Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in the Polish Ukraine. His father, a writer and translator, was from Polish nobility, but political activity against Russian oppression led to his exile. Conrad was orphaned at a young age show more and subsequently raised by his uncle. At 17 he went to sea, an experience that shaped the bleak view of human nature which he expressed in his fiction. In such works as Lord Jim (1900), Youth (1902), and Nostromo (1904), Conrad depicts individuals thrust by circumstances beyond their control into moral and emotional dilemmas. His novel Heart of Darkness (1902), perhaps his best known and most influential work, narrates a literal journey to the center of the African jungle. This novel inspired the acclaimed motion picture Apocalypse Now. After the publication of his first novel, Almayer's Folly (1895), Conrad gave up the sea. He produced thirteen novels, two volumes of memoirs, and twenty-eight short stories. He died on August 3, 1924, in England. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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