Unexpurgated Start Classics
6 total works
Under Western Eyes traces a sequence or error, guilt, and expiation. Its composition placed such demands upon Conrad that he suffered a serious breakdown upon its completion. It is by common critical consent one of his finest achievements. Bomb-throwing assassins, political repression and revolt, emigre revolutionaries infiltrated by a government spy: much of Under Western Eyes (1911) is more topical than we might wish. Set in tsarist Russia and in Geneva, its concern with perennial issues of human responsibility gives it a lasting moral force. The contradictory demands placed upon men and women by the social and political convulsions of the modern age have never been more revealingly depicted. Joseph Conrad personally felt no sympathy with either Russians or revolutionaries. None the less his portrayal of both in Under Western Eyes is dispassionate and disinterested. Through the Western eyes of his narrator we are given a sombre but not entirely pessimistic view of the human dilemmas which are born of oppression and violence.
Joseph Conrad's Tales of Hearsay (1925) is a collection of stories covering historical events from Napoleon's invasion of Russia to the Polish uprising against Russia. The tales involve moral choices, dilemmas, and fate.
The Shadow-Line, the story of the trials of a young Captain on a shop, is the masterpiece of Conrad's final creative period.
This volume contains "Typhoon," "The Secret Sharer," "Falk," and "Amy Foster."
Joseph Conrad's The Point of Honor is a military tale. Set during the Napoleonic wars, the story revolves around Feraud and D'Hubert, two French military officers whose quarrel starts over a frivolous matter but becomes a fatal animosity.
In this collection of stories, Conrad appears at the peak of his artistic creativity. The dimensions which are touched by his deeply sensitive mind and the broad canvases that he presents and portrays through his work are truly gripping. The multifarious issues of life are dwelled upon with deep alacrity. Engrossing!