J. H Stape

Set in late-nineteenth-century London, this literary precursor to today's espionage thriller follows an anarchist's desolation, which leads to his attempt to dynamite the Greenwich Observatory.

"In these four stories Joseph Conrad explores alienation, danger, and exploitation in strange worlds, at sea and on land. 'Typhoon' portrays a captain and his first mate as they face a deadly storm, while 'Falk', the companion sea-story, is a tale of love and the struggle for survival amid hideous moral disintegration. With his two stories set on land, Conrad explores the isolation of an Eastern European immigrant in a Kent village in 'Amy Foster',...