Peter Dann
Moll Flanders - Version 2
This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…
The Rescue
"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan arc…
The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2)
Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic repu…
The Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2
The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly livin…
Gulliver's Travels (Version 3)
First published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" presents, as a mock travel tale, a series of thought experiments mi…
Moby Dick; or, The Whale (version 2)
This great, genre-bending novel nominally centres on the quest of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab to gain revenge for the loss of his leg to a…
A Set of Six
Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American…
'Twixt Land and Sea
While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place o…
A Personal Record
Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way thr…
The Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)
"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages,…
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2)
"I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, na…
Bliss, and Other Stories
"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…
Chance (version 2)
"You are the expert in the psychological wilderness," the nominal narrator of this engaging tale says at one point to Marlow, who …
Youth (Version 2)
This short tale was first published in book form alongside 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The End of the Tether', the three tales representing you…
Typhoon and Other Stories
An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…
A Man Could Stand Up
'A Man Could Stand Up' is the third, and culminating, part of Ford Madox Ford's 'Parade's End' tetralogy of novels, which begins with 'Some …
Tales of Hearsay
In the time of Napoleon, a thoughtful and romantic young Russian officer finds himself asked to do something unthinkable. In 1868, a Polish …
An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)
This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional ten…
Under Western Eyes (version 2)
"But it is a vain enterprise for sophisticated Europe to try and understand these doings." Set in St Petersburg and Geneva, this a…
Within The Tides
A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…