Joseph Conrad
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Obscure Books You Can Read Right Now – Project Gutenberg Randomness
We’re surfing the web again…this time looking at some obscure novels and memoirs from Project Gutenberg. Continue reading
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Nathaniel Hawthorne / Secret Sharer / Hunted Down
The Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradOverall rating: 5 out of 5 stars. What would you do if you found out your roommate is a wanted criminal? This is the narrator’s dilemma after he rescues a man, Leggatt, from the ocean and brings him aboard his ship. The narrator finds that they share not only a similarity Continue reading
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Under Western Eyes
Under Western Eyes (1911)by Joseph ConradOverall rating: 5 out of 5 stars By his comrades at the St. Petersburg University, Kirylo Sidorovitch Razumov, third year’s student in philosophy, was looked upon as a strong nature—an altogether trustworthy man. This, in a country where an opinion may be a legal crime visited by death or sometimes Continue reading
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The Shadow-Line
The Shadow-Line, A Confessionby Joseph ConradEdition: Oxford World’s Classics, paperback My overall rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Recommended. A young merchant officer finds his career taking an unforeseen turn, when he is suddenly promoted to becoming captain of his first ship. What he doesn’t know is that its last captain died a deranged man; Continue reading
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