Joseph Conrad Audio

"Heart of Darkness" was first published in 1902. In this novella, Joseph Conrad explores morality and human nature.

Heart of Darkness famously explores the rituals of civilisation and barbarism, and the frighteningly fine line between them.

An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories.

The Secret Agent, is Conrad’s dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists...

From the seed of an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, this book recreates the world of the secret agent. The world of law and order is mirrored in its underworld, a squalid terrorist landscape inhabited by, among others, the professor, who carries a bomb in his pocket.

"You are the expert in the psychological wilderness," the nominal narrator of this engaging tale says at one point to Marlow, who in practice serves as this novel's chief discoverer of hidden events, and commentator on the vagaries of human behaviour.

The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust for the tribal chief's daughter.

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, "The Point of Honor" (English title: "The Duel") features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop.

Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk.

Tales of Unrest (1898) is the first collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime.