Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the...

Joseph Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English. He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by...

Nostromo (full title Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard) is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad. Nostromo is set in the South American country of Costaguana, and more specifically in that...