Joseph Conrad

Almayer, an immigrant living on the Malayan continent with his native wife and his daughter, Nina, dreams of riches, and so pursues hidden gold mines and begins construction on a mansion to impress the British forces that he believes are coming to conquer the region. However, none of Almayer's schemes come through for him, and his recklessness results in a desperate situation for him and his family. Almayer's Folly was Joseph Conrad's first novel....

"Heart of Darkness" tells of a powerful European, Kurtz, who reverts to awful savagery in an isolated native trading post. "The Secret Sharer" describes the conflict of a young captain torn between his duty to his ship and his loyalty to a young officer.

"A new section of historically relevant documents and images, including maps, political cartoons, letters, reports, and interviews, has been added. These cultural materials position Conrad's work withing the broader contexts of his time and ours" --Page 4 of Cover.

A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.

When a man is accused of stealing in his position at a Dutch East Indies port, he convinces the man who gave him his start in life, a merchant ship captain, to take him to a secret trading post on a remote Indonesian island.