Lord Jim & Nostromo

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A unique bolume that combines Conrad's great tale of the corruption fo a community, Nostromo, and his masterful nobel of one man's desperate search for redemption, Lord Jim. 100 best.

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Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Ukraine, in 1857. After both of his parents died of tuberculosis, Conrad went to live with his uncle in Switzerland. After attending school in Krakw,he joined the French and then the British merchant marines, sailing to exotic destinations like the West Indies and the Congo, which would later become the backdrops for some of his fiction. In 1894 he settled down in England and began his literary career. In 1902 Conrad published his most famous work, Heart of Darkness, and continued to write until his death in 1924.

Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asias Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hup Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. Hewas amember of the Pentagons Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navys Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the worldsTop 100 Global Thinkers.