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The Red and the Black

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Stendhal


It is a brave author indeed who gives his hero as many flaws as Stendhal bestows upon young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son…

The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


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…

A Set of Six

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Joseph Conrad


Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American…

The Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2

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Katherine Mansfield


The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly livin…

A Personal Record

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Joseph Conrad


Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way thr…

'Twixt Land and Sea

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Joseph Conrad


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…

The Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


"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,…

Moll Flanders - Version 2

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Daniel Defoe


This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…

Youth (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


This short tale was first published in book form alongside 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The End of the Tether', the three tales representing you…

Chance (version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


"You are the expert in the psychological wilderness," the nominal narrator of this engaging tale says at one point to Marlow, who …

Bliss, and Other Stories

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Katherine Mansfield


"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…

Tales of Hearsay

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Joseph Conrad


In the time of Napoleon, a thoughtful and romantic young Russian officer finds himself asked to do something unthinkable. In 1868, a Polish …

A Man Could Stand Up

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Ford Madox Ford


'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 …

Typhoon and Other Stories

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Joseph Conrad


An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…

An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional ten…

Within The Tides

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Joseph Conrad


A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2)

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Henry Fielding


"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…

Under Western Eyes (version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


"But it is a vain enterprise for sophisticated Europe to try and understand these doings." Set in St Petersburg and Geneva, this a…

In a German Pension, Version 2

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Katherine Mansfield


Katherine Mansfield was only 22 years old when these stories were first published in book form. Mansfield was later reluctant to see them re…

Victory (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


After spending some years wandering about the East and engaging in various adventures, Axel Heyst, a man of independent means who feels litt…

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