Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych – polskiej i angielskiej. Autor na temat tego utworu tak pisze: „Opowieść ta, którą nazwałem żałosną, a której pierwotny tytuł j...
A set of six amazing short stories by Joseph Conrad. However, these six stories are not in the same vein, they differ: themes and ideas. These stories do not so much illuminate anything as they tel...
This is a story about the adventures of the youth of the regency from the lower reaches of the British nobility in the harsh and capricious world of the Caribbean Sea, complete with pirates, romanc...
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, m...
This is the story of a sea captain named Wally, who suffered a financial catastrophe at the end of an outstanding career. All he wants is to leave his only daughter some money to help her cope with...
„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 a...
Conrad stresses that the narrative clearly shows that the duel really benefited two. Combat competitions made every job and strive a little harder, forced the will to survive and win in a personal ...
There are collected 3 stories. One of the stories has a distinctly ironic accent. In „Smile of Fortune”, the young captain landed his ship on a tropical island. He is met by a trader na...
This collection of short works. Despite the fact that these are short stories, the author never ceases to amaze with his approach to his characters. The scene from Brittany „Idiots” is ...
Events revolve around the daughter of a bankrupt magnate. She is viciously attacked by her disappointed governess, who has her marriage plans for her father, and Flora takes with her the belief tha...
Almayer is a European by nature who never lived in Europe. He has to marry the adoptive Malay daughter of another European, who promises Almayer a rich life. But the European does not keep his word...
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 abou...
Events unfolding in Marseille. George secretly gets the forbidden goods, and this makes money. He falls in love with Rita da Lastiola, a young woman with a certain wealth and mystery that supports ...
This is an exciting, atmospheric work that works on several levels: partly a story of tropical adventures, partly a melodramatic novel, partly a psychological thriller, partly a criticism of the em...
”Rescue” is not just muscular descriptions of a boiling sea or some kind of intrigue or action. Konrad decisively decides things like lengthy / nuanced conversations. But, as in all his...
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 ...
Wydana w 1899 r. powieść Josepha Conrada, zaliczana do kanonu literatury zachodniej.Conrad podjął w tym krótkim utworze problem kolonializmu na przykładzie Wolnego Konga, należąc...
Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition.Tłumaczyła Aniela Zagórska. „Młodość” to autobiograficzna o...
Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition.Akcja debiutanckiej powieści Conrada rozgrywa się w egzotycznej scenerii, w mi...