{"product_id":"joseph-conrad-5-volume-paperback-boxset","title":"Joseph Conrad (5 Volume Paperback Boxset)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTitles in this set includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1) Victory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e2) The Secret Agent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e3) Nostromo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e4) Lord Jim\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e5) Heart of Darkness Description:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e1) Victory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAxel Heyst\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e a dreamer and a restless drifter,\nbelieves he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he\nbecomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the\nMalay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more.\nBut his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from\nZangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to\nhis island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release,\nbut the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from detachment and\nisolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e2) The Secret Agent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent\ncommunicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven\naround an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a\nRussian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist\ngroup in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a\nhumiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verloc must\ndeal with the repercussions of his actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e3) Nostromo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eNostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest\nworks. Nostromo -- though one hundred years old -- says as much about today's\nLatin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent\npolitical life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its\nrecreation of the subtropical landscape, this picture of an insurrectionary\nsociety and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption gleams on every\npage with its author's dry, undeceived, impeccable intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e4) Lord Jim\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of\nthe great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English\nboy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an\nearly age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the\nability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story\ninto both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture\nof a character who reaches the status of a literary hero.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e5) Heart of Darkness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eGenerally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's\nshorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the\nauthor intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during\nthe period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals\nwith the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political\nexploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour\nthis induced in some individuals.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WILCO INTERNATIONAL LLP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44720383983823,"sku":"9788119172771","price":52.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_50afe2de-4d72-4d3b-8162-14a1a42bfbcd.jpg?v=1765504496","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/joseph-conrad-5-volume-paperback-boxset","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}