Joseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to the more perplexed forms and values of twentiethcentury literature. N...

Joseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to the more perplexed forms and values of twentieth-century literature....

The short fiction of Joseph Conrad is central to his literary achievement. Conrad wrote forty-three works of fiction, of which thirty-one are short, ranging from stories of a few pages to novellas of twenty-five thousand to fifty thousand words. His shor...

I first started teaching "Il Conde" over thirty years ago, and it remains one of my favorite stories not least because it is a classic example of the rhetorical strategies Conrad employs to ensure "the reader collaborates with the author" (CL2, p. 394)....

FOXBORO -- Unfortunately, Chiquinho Conde still faces a long wait for his frequent flier bonus. "It does not work that way. All of my flights have been on different airlines," said the Revolution forward, just back from his second trip halfway around...