Télécharger le livre :  Chance
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
'no consideration, no delicacy, no tenderness, no scruples should stand in the way of a woman ... from taking the shortest cut towards securing for herself the easiest possible existence' Chance(1914) was the first of Conrad's novels to bring him popular success and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2002-10-10

ePub

Offre spéciale   -40%  10,13€  
6,08
Télécharger le livre :  Chance
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
I believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  Almayer's Folly
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked it less. No matter; there would be an end to all this...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  Lord Jim
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
When this novel first appeared in book form a notion got about that I had been bolted away with. Some reviewers maintained that the work starting as a short story had got beyond the writer's con-trol. One or two discovered internal evidence of the fact, which seemed to...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  The Mirror of the Sea
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
And shippes by the brinke comen and gon, And in swich forme endure a day or two. THE FRANKELEYN'S TALE....

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  Nostromo
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
NOSTROMO is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which belong to the period following upon the publication of the Typhoon volume of short stories.

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  A Personal Record
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
As a general rule we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little friendly pressure. I defended myself with some spirit; but, with characteristic tenacity, the friendly voice...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  The Secret Agent
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening.Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business....

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  A Set of Six
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
THE six stories in this volume are the result of some three or four years of occasional work. The dates of their writing are far apart, their origins are various. None of them are connected directly with personal ex-periences. In all of them the facts are inherently...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  Tales of Unrest
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Of the five stories in this volume, The Lagoon, the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions....

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  Within The Tides
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
In the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and part-owner of the important newspaper.

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  Twixt Land and Sea
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Ever since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided gently in smooth water. After a sixty days' passage I was anxious to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics. The more enthusiastic of its inhabitants delight in describing it as...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  Typhoon
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
THE main characteristic of this volume consists in this, that all the stories composing it belong not only to the same period but have been written one after another in the order in which they appear in the book.

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  Victory: An Island Tale
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
The last word of this novel was written on 29 May 1914. And that last word was the single word of the title.

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  Gaspar Ruiz
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
A REVOLUTIONARY war raises many strange characters out of the obscurity which is the common lot of humble lives in an undisturbed state of society.

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  Some Reminiscences
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town; and since saints are supposed to look benignantly on humble believers, I indulge in the pleasant fancy that...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  The Shadow Line
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
D'autre fois, calme plat, grand miroir De mon desespoir. BAUDELAIRE

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  The Rescue
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Of the three long novels of mine which suffered an interruption, The Rescue was the one that had to wait the longest for the good pleasure of the Fates. I am betraying no secret when I state here that it had to wait precisely for twenty years. I laid it aside at the end...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  Heart of Darkness
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide....

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
Télécharger le livre :  End of the Tether
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea - seemed to shatter...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

ePub

1,99
<< < 1234 >