The Portable Conrad (Penguin Classics)

A great novelist of the sea, a poet of the tropics, a critic of empire and analyst of globalization, a harbinger of the modern spy novel, an unparalleled observer of the moments in which people are stripped of their illusions-Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This revised edition of The Portable Conrad features the best known and most enduring of Conrad's works, including The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, and The Nigger of the "Narcissus," as well as shorter tales like "Amy Forster" and "The Secret Sharer," a selection of letters, and his observations on the sinking of the Titanic.

The Portable Conrad Acknowledgments

Introduction by Michael Gorra

Joseph Conrad: A Chronology

I. A Calm and a Storm

The Secret Sharer: An Episode from the Coast

Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"

The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Sea

II. Three Stories

Karain: A Memory

Amy Foster

The Warrior's Soul

III. Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

IV. The Secret Agent

Author's Note

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

V. Essays, Autobiography, and Letters

Autocracy and War

Some Reflections on the Loss of the Titanic

FROM The Mirror of the Sea, "Initiation"

FROM A Personal Record

Letters

To Marguerite Poradowska, 26 September 1890

To Carol Zagorski, 10 March 1896

To R. B. Cunninghame Graham, 20 December 1897

To Edward Garnett, 29 March 1898

To John Galsworthy, 12 March 1899

To R. B. Cunninghame Graham, 14 October 1899

To William Blackwood, 31 May 1902

To Roger Casement, 21 December 1903

To William Rothenstein, 3 September 1904

To J. B. Pinker, 30 July 1907

To J. B. Pinker, 16? July 1908

To Edward Garnett, 27 May 1912

To John Quinn, January 1917

To John Quinn, 6 February 1918

To Hugh Walpole, 10 February 1922

To C. K. Scott Moncrieff, 17 December 1922

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