Druga antologia klasycznych opowiadań o duchach autorstwa najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli gatunku!
Po raz pierwszy w formie audio posłuchasz:
1. Aleksander Puszkin: “Trumniarz”;
2. Edgar Allan Poe: “Zagłada domu Usherów”;
3. Fiodor Dostojewski: “Bobok”;
4. Joseph Conrad: “Gospoda pod Dwiema Wiedźmami”.
Embarquez pour un voyage inoubliable au cœur de l'Afrique avec le chef-d'œuvre intemporel de Joseph Conrad, 'Au cœur des ténèbres'. Alors que le protagoniste Charles Marlow navigue sur le dangereux fleuve Congo, les lecteurs sont plongés dans un monde d'obscurité et d'ambiguïté, où la façade de la civilisation dissimule les instincts primaires qui se cachent en dessous. La prose envoûtante de Conrad explore profondément le psychisme humain, abordant des thèmes tels que l'impérialisme, la décadence morale, et la mince frontière entre la civilisation et la sauvagerie. Une exploration fascinante de la condition humaine, 'Au cœur des ténèbres' défie les lecteurs à affronter les ténèbres en eux-mêmes et à lutter avec les complexités de l'âme humaine. Un récit captivant et palpitant qui continue à résonner avec les lecteurs à travers les générations.
Marlowe tells a tale of his youth, before he ventured into the Heart of Darkness. After several false starts, he signs as second officer on a trading ship to Bangkok.
Before their final disembarkation, he discovers that all the rats are abandoning ship before they had even left the dockyard. It isn't until Marlowe and his crew is halfway to Singapore until they discover the horror the rats have left behind.
An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. This volume also includes Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, which are concerned with maturity and old age, respectively. "Youth" is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance. Youth depicts his first journey to the East."
Youth' is an autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad. It was written in 1898, first published in Blackwood's Magazine, and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. The volume also included Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, which are concerned with maturity and old age, respectively. 'Youth' depicts a young man's first journey to the East. It is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Lord Jim and Chance. Mr. Marlow seems to appear for the first time chronologically in Conrad's works (the Author remarks, that he thinks, Marlow spells his name this way)...
An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. This volume also includes Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, which are concerned with maturity and old age, respectively. 'Youth' is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance. Youth depicts his first journey to the East.'
In these two magnificent novellas Conrad explores the question of self-discovery through powerful and exciting narratives in Youth, the experienced seaman Marlow tells the story of a young man's coming of age on his first voyage to the East. While in Heart of Darkness he describes with terrifying depth and vividness the slide into corruption of an idealistic trader - Kurtz, who has become the demi-devil of the Inner Station in the Belgian Congo...
Born in 1857 in Poland, Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30.In the intervening years he lost both parents; becoming an orphan at 11 being thereafter raised by an uncle, who at 16 let the boy go to Marseille where he began to work on merchant ships though at times it included stints gun running and the intrigue of political conspiracy. At age 36 his life turned from one of ships to one of literary pursuit. Conrad brought to English Literature both a further layer of style and a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of work. He wrote many novels, rightly regarded today, as some of the finest in English literature. Among their canon are Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Shadow Line and of course Heart Of Darkness.
Youth, although written over a century ago, is just as relevant to hummans today and I believe for all time. Here Conrad addresses the dimming of our mortal light, that subtle relization in all of us that we are no longer as vital as we once were. That mark in time when we acknowledge to ourselves that we are aging, Growing old, dieing.
Water. H2O. Adams Ale. An essential for life. Without it life is impossible. Was it always that way? In this volume of stories water becomes the landscape and narrative, a character more deadly and perhaps more aware of its power than us mere mortals. We are beguiled by its sight. Whether softly breaking waves on a sandy beach or a thunderous storm engulfing the cliff face. But also in other forms; as lakes and lagoons. Water is everywhere and where there is water is the shadow of menace.
"Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, amongst others, on the idea of Fidelity."-Joseph Conrad
Written at various times and under various influences, the four stories contained in Within the Tides are linked by Conrad's treatment of loyalty and betrayal. They range in setting from the Far East via eighteenth-century Spain to England. The tone shifts from the tragic inevitability of "The Planter of Malata" and the pathos of "Because of the Dollars" to the gothic "The Inn of the Two Witches" and the grim humor of "The Partner." Experimental in form, they represent yet another branch of Conrad's search for moral truth.
Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific. After retreating from society in response to his professional failures, the misanthrope is drawn back by a romantic affair.
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