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The Christopher Marlow Stories
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Author : Joseph Conrad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-04-21
The Christopher Marlow Stories written by Joseph Conrad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-21 with Fiction categories.
Charles Marlow is a recurring character in the work of Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad. Marlow is an alter ego of Conrad; both are sailors for the British Empire during the late-19th and early-20th century during the height of British imperialism.Marlow narrates several of Conrad's best-known works. The character Marlow narrates Conrad's novels Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Chance , The Arrow of Gold and his short story "Youth". The stories are not told entirely from Marlow's perspective however. There is also an omniscient narrator who introduces Marlow and some of the other characters. Then, once introduced, Marlow proceeds to tell the actual tale, creating a story-within-a-story effect.This book collects the four Marlow books into one book.This book is annotated with a biography about the life and times of Joseph Conrad.
Heart Of Darkness
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Author : Joseph Conrad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06-19
Heart Of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-19 with categories.
Aboard the Nellie, anchored in the River Thames near Gravesend, Charles Marlow tells his fellow sailors about the events that led to his appointment as captain of a river steamboat for an ivory trading company. As a child, Marlow had been fascinated by "the blank spaces" on maps, particularly by the biggest, which by the time he had grown up was no longer blank but turned into "a place of darkness" (Conrad 10). Yet there remained a big river, "resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country and its tail lost in the depths of the land" (Conrad 10). The image of this river on the map fascinated Marlow "as a snake would a bird" (Conrad 10). Feeling as though "instead of going to the centre of a continent I were about to set off for the centre of the earth", Marlow takes passage on a French steamer bound for the African coast and then into the interior (Conrad 18). After more than thirty days the ship anchors off the seat of government near the mouth of the big river. Marlow, with still some two hundred miles to go, takes passage on a little sea-going steamer captained by a Swede. He departs some thirty miles up the river where his company's station is. Work on the railway is going on, involving removal of rocks with explosives. Marlow enters a narrow ravine to stroll in the shade under the trees, and finds himself in "the gloomy circle of some Inferno": the place is full of diseased Africans who worked on the railroad and now await their deaths, their sickened bodies already as thin as air (Conrad 24-25). Marlow witnesses the scene "horror-struck" (Conrad 26). Marlow has to wait for ten days in the company's Outer Station, where he sleeps in a hut. At this station, which strikes Marlow as a scene of devastation, he meets the company's impeccably dressed chief accountant who tells him of a Mr. Kurtz, who is in charge of a very important trading-post, and a widely respected, first-class agent, a "'very remarkable person'" who "'Sends in as much ivory as all the others put together'" (Conrad 28). The agent predicts that Kurtz will go very far: "'He will be a somebody in the Administration before long. They, above-the Council in Europe, you know-mean him to be'" (Conrad 29). Marlow departs with a caravan of sixty men to travel on foot about 200 miles (320 km) into the wilderness to the Central Station, where the steamboat that he is to captain is based. On the fifteenth day of his march, he arrives at the station, which has some twenty employees and is shocked to learn from a fellow European that his steamboat had been wrecked in a mysterious accident two days earlier. He meets the general manager, who informs him that he could wait no longer for Marlow to arrive, because the up-river stations had to be relieved and tells a rumour that one important station is in jeopardy because its chief, the exceptional Mr. Kurtz, is ill. "Hang Kurtz", Marlow thinks, irritated (Conrad 34). He fishes his boat out of the river and is occupied with its repair for some months, during which a sudden fire destroys a grass shed full of materials used to trade with the natives. While one of the natives is tortured for allegedly causing the fire, Marlow is invited in the room of the station's brick-maker, a man who spent a year waiting for material to make bricks. Marlow gets the impression the man wants to pump him and is curious to know what kind of information he is after. Hanging on the wall is "a small sketch in oils, on a panel, representing a woman draped and blindfolded carrying a lighted torch" (Conrad 39). Marlow is fascinated with the sinister effect of the torchlight upon the woman's face, and is informed that Mr. Kurtz made the painting in the station a year ago. The brick-maker calls Kurtz "'a prodigy'" and "'an emissary of pity, and science, and progress'", and feels Kurtz represents the "'higher intelligence, wide sympathies, a singleness of purpose'"
Conrad S Marlow
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Author : Paul Wake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Conrad S Marlow written by Paul Wake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
Described as "the average pilgrim" a "wanderer," and "a Buddha preaching in European clothes," Charlie Marlow is the voice behind Joseph Conrad's Youth (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), and Chance (1912). Conrad's Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad's most celebrated creations, asking both who and what is Marlow: a character or a narrator, a biographer or an autobiographical screen, a messenger or an interpreter, a bearer of truth, or a misguided liar? Offering an investigation into the connection between narrative and death, this book argues that Marlow's essence is located in his constantly shifting position and that the emergence of meaning in his stories is bound up with the process of his storytelling.
Conrad S Marlow
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Author : Paul Wake
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2007-10
Conrad S Marlow written by Paul Wake and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reading Conrad's fiction alongside the work of Benjamin Blanchot, Derrida, and Heidegger, and offering an investigation into the connection between narrative and death, this book argues that Marlow's essence is located in his liminality and that the meaning in his stories is at all points bound up with the process of his storytelling.
Conrad In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Ian Watt
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
Conrad In The Nineteenth Century written by Ian Watt and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s."—New York Times
Chance
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Author : Joseph Conrad
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1914
Chance written by Joseph Conrad and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1914 with Fiction categories.
Chance(1914) was the first of Conrad's novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and abandoned young girl who is "like a beggar, without a right to anything but compassion." After her bankrupt father is imprisoned, she learns the harsh fact that a woman in her position "has no resources but in herself." Her only means of action is to be what she is. Flora's long struggle to achieve some dignity and happiness makes her Conrad's most moving female character. Reflecting the contemporary interest in the New Woman and the Suffragette question, Chance also marks the final appearance of Marlow, Conrad's most effective and wise narrator. This revised edition uses the English first edition text and has a new chronology and bibliography.
Joseph Conrad
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Author : D C R A Goonetilleke
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1990-11-19
Joseph Conrad written by D C R A Goonetilleke and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-11-19 with Fiction categories.
Heart Of Darkness Joseph Conrad Annotated
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Author : Joseph Conrad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-24
Heart Of Darkness Joseph Conrad Annotated written by Joseph Conrad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-24 with categories.
Aboard a British ship called the Nellie, three men listen to a dude named Marlow recount his journey into Africa as an agent for "the Company," a Belgian ivory trading firm.If you think "The Company" sounds super-sketchy, you're right: from the get-go, Marlow feels a nameless sense of dread about working for "The Company." (It doesn't help that the last guy to have held Marlow's position...was murdered.)When Marlowe signs on to take this voyage, he sees a couple of old women knitting in the corner. They give him the heebie-jeebies. Then, when he gets to Africa, he meets a dude wearing starched, formal clothing despite the heat. He's deeply weirded out by this fancy-pants guy and by the camp in general--and things haven't even started to get nightmarish.Marlow realizes that the Africans are kept as slaves, and many are dying from the brutality of the conditions. These Africans, he realizes, and "not inhuman." (Don't get excited; Marlow's hardly progressive here.)As the bureaucracy of The Company moves at a molasses-like pace, Marlowe becomes entangled in a power struggle within The Company--middle management is trying to climb the ranks, and being especially slimy about it. He also starts hearing tell of a mysterious figure named Kurtz, a mad agent who's rumored to have become both a prisoner and revered as a god by the indigenous population living further down the Congo.In fact, the more he hears about Kurtz, the more obsessed Marlow becomes. Who is this Kurtz? Why is he such a powerful figure? Why does everyone seem to either idolize him or loathe him?Finally, after delays due to a broken-down (or possibly vandalized) steamship, Marlow is on his way to meet the enigmatic Kurtz. Aboard the steamship are cannibals who, thankfully, snack on some rancid hippo meat. The ship is forced to stop often: once to pick up wood (the pile of wood is accompanied with a note that says, essentially, "Proceed with caution"), once because of a mysterious fog bank, and once because of an attack--arrows strike the ship from the riverbank, and the helmsman is impaled with a spear.When the riverboat arrives at Kurtz's camp, Marlow sees that the decoration of choice is posts topped with the severed heads of locals. Oh, that's not creepy at all.Marlow's met by a weird Russian dressed like a clown. This "harlequin" informs Marlow that Kurtz is a god. He has apparently expanded the harlequin's worldview with his power and eloquence. Marlow, naturally, thinks that both this harlequin and Kurtz must be bonkers.We finally meet Kurtz, who's so ill he's carried out on a stretcher. He looks, almost literally, like death. The natives in the camp want to attack the steamship, but Kurtz tells them to fall back. Although Kurtz tries to run away--or, rather, crawl away, because he's too weak to run--he finally agrees to being brought back to the mouth of the Congo.Kurtz's health deteriorates: he goes blind, starts raving in a series of fever dreams, and gives Marlow a stack of papers and the instructions not to hand them over to "The Company." When he finally dies, his (famous) last words are "The horror! The horror!" Shortly after this, Marlow becomes super sick, but he pulls through.When he returns to Europe, Marlow is disillusioned with both "The Company" and Europe in general. He refuses to hand over Kurtz's papers, possibly jeopardizing his career. He does, however, visit Kurtz's Belgian fiancée, in order to give her a few of Kurtz's letters. The fiancée is still mourning Kurtz, and asks anxiously about Kurtz's last words. Marlow lies, telling her that Kurtz said her name.Yeah, that's a lot sweeter than muttering, "The horror! The horror!"
Conrad S Charlie Marlow
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Author : B. Paris
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2006-01-21
Conrad S Charlie Marlow written by B. Paris and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study argues that Conrad portrays Marlow and his relationships with a psychological depth that is unsurpassed in literature. In Youth , Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim , he is a continuously-evolving character whose thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are expressions of his personality and experience.
Study Guide To Lord Jim And Other Works By Joseph Conrad
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Author : Intelligent Education
language : en
Publisher: Influence Publishers
Release Date : 2020-06-28
Study Guide To Lord Jim And Other Works By Joseph Conrad written by Intelligent Education and has been published by Influence Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-28 with Study Aids categories.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Joseph Conrad, Polish-British writer known as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. As a master prose stylist of nineteenth and twentieth-century modernism, Conrad’s works shaped and inspired English narrative fiction. Moreover, his novels’ anti-heroic characters inspired many other authors. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Joseph Conrad’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.