Joseph Conrad
Author
Language
English
Description
"The mythology of "gifted land" is strong in the National Park Service, but some of our greatest parks were "gifted," by people who had little if any choice in the matter. Places like the Grand Canyon's south rim and Glacier had to be bought, finagled, borrowed - or taken by force - when Indian occupants and owners resisted the call to contribute to the public welfare. The story of national parks and Indians is, depending on perspective, a costly...
102) The Duellists
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
Two officers in Napoleon's army violently confront each other in a series of savage duels.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Page
Pub. Date
1926.
Language
English
Description
Conrad's last novel set in Genoa in early 1815. This is the story of Cosmo Latham -- an Englishman and veteran of the late war against Napoleon, looking to see what he was unable to see earlier, and perhaps even get a glimpse of the Emperor himself. But, when he finds a girl from his youth, formerly Mlle Adele D'Armand, and now Mrs. Helion de Montevesso, he finds that his emotions can get the better of him.
Author
Series
Complete works ; 8
Publisher
Doubleday, Page
Pub. Date
1926.
Language
English
Description
Karain: A traveler describes his visit to the small fiefdom of Karain in an isolated part of the Malayan Archipelago and meets the colourful and confident leader, Karain. Due to a local war, Karain must escape his fiefdom and manages to join his friend Pata Malara. Unfortunately, Malara's sister has brought dishonor to her family by joining a Dutchman. After seeing an image of Malara's sister, Karain falls madly in love with her and experiences conflict...
107) Romance
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Romance (1903) is a novel by Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad. One of just three collaborations between two of the greatest English language novelists of the twentieth century, Romance plays to the strengths of each author, to weave a tale of adventure, bad luck, and political intrigue. Adapted into The Road to Romance (1927), a lost silent film, Romance remains a highly entertaining and largely forgotten work of English fiction. "What are these...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Russians are furious with the English establishment's indifference to the anarchist threat gripping the rest of Europe. So Verloc, a Russian spy, is assigned a mission: blow up the Greenwich Observatory and make it look like a terrorist attack to provoke a crackdown. Should he fail, Verloc's real identity as a spy could be exposed to his vicious comrades.--
110) Gabrielle
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Jean is a successful publisher. He has refined tastes and abundant material possessions, among which he seems to include his wife, Gabrielle. But in a single afternoon, Gabrielle decides to leave him for another man and then abruptly reverses her decision. Now, everything that Jean believed to be true about his life and marriage falls apart.
111) Apocalypse now
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
112) Sabotage
Language
English
Description
A movie theatre cashier suspects her mild-mannered husband is a traitor who is terrorizing London.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed cartoonist Peter Kuper delivers a powerful interpretation of this controversial classic. Heart of Darkness has unsettled generations of readers with its haunting portrait of colonialism and brutal exploitation in Africa. Now award-winning illustrator Peter Kuper reimagines Conrad's masterpiece for a new generation, transforming this dramatic tale of madness, greed, and evil into something visually immersive and profoundly complex. Drawn...
115) Swept from the sea
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The film tells Joseph Conrad's story of Russian emigres and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
116) Heart of darkness
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In turn-of-the century Africa, colonial traders driven by greed brave forbidding dangers to exploit the continent's vast treasures. One of these is sea captain Marlow, who penetrates the Congo's jungles in pursuit of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz, deranged chief of a remote trading station." --
Publisher
Delta Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. When the saboteur suspects he is being watched, he asks his nephew to deliver an explosive parcel across town.
The lodger: The central character, called simply "The Lodger", is caught in the trap of other peoples' suspicions. Because this lodger, who is renting a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, seems mysterious, he is...
118) Murder/Sabotage
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Murder!: an innocent woman is charged with murder, her only hope a lone juror who is convinced of her innocence. He sets out to track down the real killer.
Sabotage: London is being terrorized by an unknown bomber. A movie cashier suspects that her husband is behing it all.
Author
Publisher
DXBooks
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell : The Complete Novels - Thomas Hardy : The Complete Novels - Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Complete Novels - Victor Hugo: The Complete Novels - Robert Louis Stevenson: The Complete Novels - Rudyard Kipling : The Complete Novels and Stories - H. P. Lovecraft : The complete Collection - Edgar Allan Poe : The Complete Tales And Poems - Mary Shelley : The...