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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...

In a letter to Edward Garnett of 31 October 1904, Cunninghame Graham remarked that Conrad's new novel, which had just been issued in London by Harper, was "wonderful," but also that its title was "a damned bad name," and that the book ought...

Like rock stars and hemlines, "classic" novels come and go. "Nostromo," Joseph Conrad's 1904 tale of imperialist exploitation in the fictitious South American nation of Costaguana, once was ranked among the century's greatest English-language novels. Now one might have to attend grad school to...