Author: Joseph Conrad
Title: The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad
Description: London, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. Cloth. A smart collection of fourteen volumes from this set of the complete works of Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad. Fourteen volumes of a twenty-five volume set. Lacking volumes 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. Canterbury edition. The collected works of Joseph Conrad, a Polish-British novelist and story writer regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Conrad is considered a literary impressionist and an early modernist, and his works contain elements of nineteenth-century realism. Many of his pieces are set in nautical environments that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world. Both The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story and Romance: A Novel, were written alongside Ford Madox Ford, under F. M. Hueffer, an English novelist, poet, critic and editor. This set contains: Volume I - The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes. Set in Marseille in the 1870s during the Third Carlist War, following a love triangle which comprises the young narrator, Dona Rita and the Confederate veteran Captain Blunt. Volume II - Chance: A Tale in Two Parts. A record of various episodes in the life of Miss de Barral, the daughter of a convicted swindler named Smith de Barral. Volume III - Notes on Life and Letters. A collection of essays and correspondence from the author. Volume VI - The Mirror of The Sea. A collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines. Volume V - The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story. A quasi-science fiction novel written before the first World War, exploring themes of corruption and the effect of the twentieth century on British aristocracy. Volume VI - A Personal Record. An autobiographical work notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, nonetheless considered the principal contemporary source for information about the author's life. Volume VII - Romance: A Novel. Following John Kemp, a young English man, as he boards a ship bound for Jamaica, and then another, bound for Cuba. Volume VIII - Tales of Unrest. A collection of short stories. Volume IX - Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard. Set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana", this novel follows Charles Gould, a native Costaguanero of English descent who owns an important silver-mining concession near the key port of Sulaco. Volume X - Within the Tides: Tales. A collection of short stories. Volume XI - Almayer's Folly. Set in the late nineteenth century, the story follows the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to his mixed heritage daughter Nina. Volume XIII - The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale. An anarchist spy fiction novel set in London in 1886 which deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country. Volume XIV - An Outcast of The Islands. Inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar, the novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, while on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village. Volume XV - Victory. A psychological novel following the life of Axel Heyst who leaves England after his father's death and becomes a rootless wanderer. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head of the spines resulting in minor fraying. Front hinge starting but firm to volume one only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light spotting and minor age toning to the first and last few pages to some volumes. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: Conrad Complete Arrow of Gold Nostromo Complete Within the Tides Chance None


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