Joseph Conrad livre Le Duel
Le Duel, 1908
Joseph Conrad, pseudonyme de Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski herb. Nałęcz, est né le 3 décembre 1857 à Berditchev et mort le 3 août 1924 à Bishopsbourne . D'origine polonaise, il est un écrivain de langue anglaise majeur du XXe siècle. Wikipedia

Joseph Conrad livre Le Duel
Le Duel, 1908
Joseph Conrad livre Au cœur des ténèbres
Au cœur des ténèbres, 1899
Lord Jim, 1900
Lord Jim, 1900
Lord Jim, 1900
Jeunesse, 1902
Joseph Conrad livre Au cœur des ténèbres
Au cœur des ténèbres, 1899
Le compagnon secret
Joseph Conrad livre La Rescousse
La Rescousse, 1920
Joseph Conrad livre Typhon
Typhon, 1903
Le nègre du Narcisse, 1897
Le nègre du Narcisse, 1897
Le naufrage du Titanic, et autres écrits sur la mer
Le nègre du Narcisse, 1897
Le nègre du Narcisse, 1897
Le nègre du Narcisse, 1897
Joseph Conrad livre Au cœur des ténèbres
Au cœur des ténèbres, 1899
Le nègre du Narcisse, 1897
Joseph Conrad livre La Rescousse
La Rescousse, 1920
Lord Jim, 1900
Le compagnon secret
Lord Jim, 1900
Joseph Conrad livre La Rescousse
La Rescousse, 1920
La folie Almayer, 1895
Joseph Conrad livre Au cœur des ténèbres
Au cœur des ténèbres, 1899
La folie Almayer, 1895
Jeunesse, 1902
Jeunesse, 1902
Joseph Conrad livre Au cœur des ténèbres
Source: Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad livre Au cœur des ténèbres
Source: Heart of Darkness
“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go”
Joseph Conrad livre Au cœur des ténèbres
Source: Heart of Darkness
“His face was like the autumn sky, overcast one moment and bright the next.”
Joseph Conrad livre Au cœur des ténèbres
Source: Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad livre The Mirror of the Sea
Source: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 26
Letter to Robert Cunninghame-Graham (January 1898), published in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, edited by Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies, Vol. 2, p. 30. ISBN 0521257484
Joseph Conrad livre Victoire
Victory: An Island Tale, part IV, Ch. 14
Joseph Conrad livre The Mirror of the Sea
Source: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 17
“I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.”
Joseph Conrad livre Under Western Eyes
Pt. I
Under Western Eyes (1911)
“In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.”
The Arrow of Gold http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/argld10h.htm (1919), Author's note,
Letter to H. G. Wells (February 1902), published in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, edited by Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies, Vol. 2, p. 509
Youth, A Narrative http://www.gutenberg.org/files/525/525.txt (1902)
Joseph Conrad livre The Mirror of the Sea
Source: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 7
Victory: An Island Tale http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6378/6378-h/6378-h.htm (1915), Part II, ch. 3
“The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.”
Joseph Conrad livre Typhon
Typhoon (1902), Ch. 2
Joseph Conrad livre The Mirror of the Sea
Source: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 28
Joseph Conrad livre Nostromo
Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 8
Nostromo (1904)
“Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.”
Joseph Conrad livre Under Western Eyes
Pt. I, ch. 3
Under Western Eyes (1911)
Joseph Conrad livre The Shadow Line
Referring to Mr. Burns. Compare to Heart of Darkness' manager: "He was becoming confidential now, but I fancy my unresponsive attitude must have exasperated him at last, for he judged it necessary to inform me he feared neither God nor devil, let alone any mere man. I said I could see that very well..."
The Shadow Line (1915)
Joseph Conrad livre Nostromo
Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 1
Often misquoted as "A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
Nostromo (1904)
Joseph Conrad livre Under Western Eyes
Pt. II, ch. 3
Under Western Eyes (1911)
“"God for men — religions for women," he muttered sometimes.”
Joseph Conrad livre Nostromo
Part First: The Silver of the Mine, Ch. 4
Nostromo (1904)
“Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.”
Joseph Conrad livre Nostromo
Part First: The Silver of the Mine, Ch. 6
Nostromo (1904)
Joseph Conrad livre The Mirror of the Sea
Source: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 9
Joseph Conrad livre An Outpost of Progress
Tales of Unrest http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1202/1202-h/1202-h.htm. An Outpost of Progress (1902)
Joseph Conrad livre The Return
Tales of Unrest http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1202/1202-h/1202-h.htm. The Return (1902)
Joseph Conrad livre Victoire
Victory: An Island Tale, part III, Ch. 4
Joseph Conrad livre The Mirror of the Sea
London Bridge to the Royal Albert Dock
The Mirror of the Sea (1906), On the River Thames, Ch. 16
Notes on Life and Letters (1921), Part II,, "Tradition"
Joseph Conrad livre Chance
Chance (1913), part I, Ch. 6