A Conrad Argosy: Youth; Heart of Darkness; Nigger of the Narcissus; Il Conde; Gaspar Ruiz; Brute; Typhoon; The Secret Sharer; Freya of the Seven Isles; The Secret Agent; The Duel; The End of the Tether; The Shadow-Line; A Personal Record; Bibliography

x, 713 pp. 11 x 9 1/2. CONTENTS: Introduction by William McFee; A Conrad Argosy: Youth; Heart of Darkness; The Nigger of the Narcissus; Il Conde; Gaspar Ruiz; The Brute; Typhoon; The Secret Sharer; Freya of the Seven Isles; The Secret Agent; The Duel; The End of the Tether; The Shadow-Line; A Personal Record; Bibliography. "Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Józef Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born British novelist. Some of his works have been labelled romantic, although Conrad's romanticism is tempered with irony and a fine sense of man's capacity for self-deception. Many critics regard Conrad as a forerunner of modernism. A dust-jacket review, by Kingsley Amis, of Nostromo (1904) declared that the book 'placed him in the front rank of world literature.' Conrad's narrative style and existential, anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, DH Lawrence, Graham Greene, Joseph Heller and Jerzy Kosin'ski, as well as inspiring such films as Apocalypse Now (which was drawn from Conrad's Heart of Darkness)."