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Resumen: In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902. JOseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurrous life at sea and began to confront the more dounting complexities of life and land in the twentieth century.

Resumen: Nostromo is the most anxious1y meditated of the longer novels which belong to the periad foUowing upon the publication of the Typhoon volume of short stories. I don't mean to say that 1 became then conscious of any impending change in my mentality and in my attitude towards the tasks of my writing life. And perhaps there was never any change, except in that mysterious, extraneous thing which has nothing to do with the theories of art; a subt1e change in the nature of the inspiration; a phenomenon for which I cannot in any way be held responsible. What, however, did cause me some concem was that after finishing the last story of the Typhoon volume it seemed somehow that there was nothing more in the world to write about.

Resumen: The Nigger of tbe 'Narcissus' takes the reader on a voyage from Bombay lo London in a sailing ship - 'a fragment detached from the earth .. .like a small planet'. In his third novel and first major work Cornad explores themes of political and psychological subversion. Life on his 'small planet' is threatened, from within and without, by mutiny and by storm at sea, described with a new and magnificent sense of drama. Modern readers will fmd great pleasure in the novel but also much that may anger and disturb. Can Conrad be exonerated wholly from charges of reaction and racism in his handling of his themes and the central character; Jimmy Wait? Readers must find out for themselves. The novel none the less, according to one of Conrad's great biographers, Jocelyn Baines, 'contains, more than anything else he wrote, the essence of his experience at sea and of his views on the practical conduct oflife'

Resumen: This inmortal novels of the sea is the story of a British sailor haunted by a single youthful act of cowardly betrayal. To the white men in Bombay, Calcutta and Rangoon, Jim is a man of mystery. To the primitive natives deep in the Malayan jungle, he is a god, gifted with supernatural powers. To the beautiful half-caste girl who flees to his hut for protection, he is a lord to be feared and loved.