Joseph Conrad Audio

Set in Malaya, Almayer’s Folly is Joseph Conrad’s first novel. In it he charts the decline of a Dutch merchant after a twenty-five-year struggle against overwhelming odds.

Compelling story of Kurtz and the exploitation of the Dark Continent.

Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation...

The story of the enigmatic Kurtz and his outpost in deepest Congo...

He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision - he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than...

Horror awaits Marlow, a seaman assigned by an ivory company to retrieve a cargo boat and one of its employees, Mr. Kurtz who is stranded in the heart of the Africa, deep in the Belgian Congo.

This is the kind of novel that keeps working in your mind long after you have finished listening to it. It is compelling, exotic, and suspenseful, and it is far more than just an adventure story.

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

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

This work set the style for a whole class of literature, a work that the critic Morton Dauwen Zabel calls an example of Conrad's "central theme...the grip of circumstances that enforce self-discovery..."

Jim, a young, idealistic dreamer of heroic deeds, is chief mate on board the Patna. When it starts...

A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young “simple and sensitive character” who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea — and of his expiation of that sin against his own “shadowy ideal of conduct” on the remote island of Patusan.

Jim is a young and naive clerk on a cargo ship plying Asian waters.

Inaugurating Dove Audio's Modern Classics Collection - an eclectic compendium of the finest short fiction of the last 150 years...

One of the great adventure novels of our language creates a most engaging central character...

“I had the first vision of a twilight country which was to become the province of Sulaco, with its high shadowy sierra and its misty campo for mute witnesses of events flowing from the passions of men shortsighted in good and evil.”

Nostromo is Conrad's masterwork, a forerunner of Modernism, and one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. A profoundly dark moral fable set in the surroundings of a silver mine, it is a story of power, love, and revolution in the fictional South American country of Costaguana.

Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, Nostromo explores the volatile politics and crippling greed surrounding the San Tom silver mine.

Conrad’s great novel, written in 1907 and set in Edwardian London, resonates today in a world where a handful of fanatics can still play mad politics and victimize the innocent.

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

Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to....

The author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim also wrote brilliant works of short fiction. His stories...

Ahead was a great darkness lying upon a multitude of white flashes; on the starboard beam a few...

Conrad shows that in the struggle for survival, true character will always be exposed.

The unimaginative and imperturbable Captain MacWhirr pilots his steamer Nan-Shan through a typhoon of such violence that even he is moved to doubt the possibility of survival.