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Dominoes 3 Secret Agent
Now with new illustrations.Adolf Verloc is a double agent, working for both the British police and a foreign country. He pretends to live a normal life with his wife, Winnie, and has a shop in London, which, at night, becomes a meeting place for anarchists. One day Verloc is told...
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Dominoes 2 Typhoon
The activities in Dominoes keep students engaged in the stories and help to reinforce their understanding of the key language. They can be completed at home or in class. The project activities in Dominoes build on the themes from the story and encourage students to draw on their own experiences....
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Heart of Darkenss (Penguin English Library)
The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell?...
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Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
Conrad, J. (2012)
Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a profound exploration into the human subconscious twinned with a terrifying portrayal of the dangers of imperialism. Seaman Marlow tells of his journey to the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the elusive Mr Kurtz. Away from civilisation as he knows it, he...
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Lord Jim (Penguin English Library)
The Penguin English Library Edition of Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 'A murmur of dismay and horror ran through the crowd at the sight of that familiar token. The old nakhoda stared at it, and suddenly let out one great fierce cry, deep from the chest, a roar of...
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Nostromo (Penguin English Library)
The Penguin English Library Edition of Nostromo by Joseph Conrad 'There is something in a treasure that fastens upon a man's mind. He will pray and blaspheme and still persevere, and will curse the day he ever heard of it, and will let his last hour come upon him...
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Penguin Readers 5 Heart of Darkness + CD
Classic / British English Resting one night on a boat on the River Thames, Charlie Marlow tells his friends about his experiences as a steamboat captain on the River Congo. There, in the heart of Africa, his search for the extraordinary Mr Kurtz caused him to question his own nature...
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Secret Agent (Penguin English Library)
'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world'. In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a...
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Heart of Darkness (Arcturus Classics)
Conrad, J. (2010)
'The horror! The horror!' Seaman Charlie Marlowe takes a decaying steamboat on a perilous voyage to the heart of Africa. His mission is to relieve an ivory agent named Kurtz, taken sick at his remote trading station on the river Congo. The atrocities that Marlowe witnesses on his journey, and...
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Heart of Darkness (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.’ At...
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Nostromo (Oxford World's Classics)
'I have heard no end of tales of his strength, his audacity, his fidelity...incorruptible! It is indeed a name of honour for the Capataz of the Cargadores of Sulaco.' One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo enacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American...
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Outcast of the Islands (Oxford World's Classic)
´he murmured with conviction - speaking aloud to himself in the shock of the penetrating thought: I am a lost man´ Peter Willems, a clerk in Macassar, granted a ´second chance´ at a remote river trading post, falls ever more hopelessly into traps set by himself and others. The pawn...
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Shadow-Line (Oxford World's Classics)
'A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt before or since.' link title to catalogue entry](exact date?)Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to...
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Penguin Readers 5 Heart of Darkness + CD
Classic / British English Resting one night on a boat on the River Thames, Charlie Marlow tells his friends about his experiences as a steamboat captain on the River Congo. There, in the heart of Africa, his search for the extraordinary Mr Kurtz caused him to question his own nature...
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Under Western Eyes (Oxford World's Classics)
'Whenever two Russians come together, the shadow of autocracy is with them...haunting the secret of their silences.' First published in 1911, Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student of philosophy who is uninvolved in politics or protest. Against his will he finds himself caught up...
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Heart of Darkness (Penguin Popular Classics)
Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to...
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Lord Jim (Penguin Popular Classics)
When Lord Jim first appeared in 1900, many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extended conversation--a ripping good yarn, if you like. (One critic in The Academy complained that the narrator "was telling that after-dinner story to his companions for eleven...
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Black Cat 4 - Secret Agent + CD
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, has a shop in London. He lives there peacefully with his wife Winnie, her mother and her brother, Stevie. When Mr Verloc becomes involved with an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Royal Observatory, things go disastrously wrong. Mr Verloc
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Black Cat 5 - Heart of Darkness + CD
Marlow, a merchant sailor, travels through colonial Africa. He makes a perilous journey by steamboat to rescue Kurtz, an agent, who is seriously ill. He arrives at Kurtz
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Victory (Oxford World's Classics)
´Victory, don´t forget, has come out of my innermost self.´ Victory was the last of Conrad´s novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. Sub-titled ´An Island Tale´, it tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead father´s nihilistic philosophy, has retreated from the world of commerce...
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Heart fo Darkness (Dover Classics)
The story of Marlow travelling upriver in central Africa to find Kurtz, an ivory agent as consumed by the horror of human life as he is by physical illness, has long been considered a classic, and continues to be widely read and studied This edition, edited by one of...
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Heart of Darkness (Penguin Popular Classics)
In this tale of colonial exploitation, the narrator, Marlowe, journeys deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist apparently crazed and depraved by his power over the natives, and the meeting prompts Marlowe to reflect on the darkness at the heart of all men.
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Secret Agent (Penguin Popular Classics)
This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, a Russian spy who is also working for the police, is ostensibly a member of an...
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