Selected Short Stories

This specially commissioned selection of Conrad’s matchless short stories includes such favourites as Youth a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer a thrilling psychological drama; An Outpost of Progress a blackly comic prelude to Heart of Darkness; Amy Foster a moving story of a shipwrecked alienated Pole; and The Lagoon and Karain two exotic exciting Malay tales Il Conde and The Tale are subtle portrayals of bewildered outrage; An Anarchist and The Informer are sardonic depictions of revolutionaries and Prince Roman is a tale of magnificent doomed heroism set in Conrad’s native Poland during the new to Conrad’s work and those familiar with his novels will delight in this wideranging