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.

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.

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.

Conrad's journey up the congo into the heart of darkness.