Llevada hace unos años al cine, Los duelistas es una de las obras capitales de Conrad, la historia de una interminable contienda entre dos oficiales de la Grande Armée, enzarzados en una insensata guerra privada, en los intervalos y escenarios de las guerras napoleónicas. El relato, que llega a adquirir caracteres legendarios, convierte sutilmente a ambos duelistas en `dos artistas dementes, empeñados en dorar el oro o teñir una azucena`. La lucha contra el otro, para acabar con el otro, será así, sin paradojas, el verdadero fin de toda existencia

Ce roman d'aventures est la dernière oeuvre que Joseph Conrad conduisit à son terme. Peyrol, ancien forban, se retire sur le rivage méditerranéen, non loin de la rade de Toulon, dans une période troublée – l'action se déroule sous la Convention et le Consulat – où la paix à laquelle il aspire va lui être ravie par la force des circonstances. Sur la toile de fond mi-terrestre mi-maritime, se meuvent des personnages fortement individualisés, marqués par les événements de l'époque – rivalités politiques nationales, massacres de la Terreur, etc

Nostromo (1904), a story of revolution, politics, and financial manipulation in a South American republic, centres, for all its close-packed incidents, upon one idea—the corruption of the characters by the ambitions that they set before themselves, ambitions concerned with silver, which forms the republic’s wealth and which is the central symbol around which the novel is organized. The ambitions range from simple greed to idealistic desires for reform and justice. All lead to moral disaster, and the nobler the ambition the greater its possessor’s self-disgust as he realizes his plight

La aventura y la angustia de la encrucijada de un destino. Hay momentos en que todo lo que ha sido un hombre, todo lo que ha hecho, todas las experiencias, relaciones e intereses de su vida, pueden conden¬sarse en un solo instante dramático: es entonces la situación límite, la aventura o la catástrofe, el desenlace o la reiniciación. Los testigos de uno de esos momentos excepcionales pueden no enten¬der, el novelista sí entiende. Es la historia de una de esas situaciones límite la que narra Conrad, en una obra maestra hasta ahora desconocida para los lectores de lengua castellana

From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages—with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices—past and present—that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) God/no-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you'll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and many others well-known and lesser known. And they’re all set in context and commented upon as only Christopher Hitchens—“political and literary journalist extraordinaire” (Los Angeles Times). Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: The Portable Atheist will speak to you and engage you every step of the way

Written at various times, under various influences, the four stories contained in Within the Tides are linked by Conrad's treatment of loyalty and betrayal. They range in setting from the Far East via eighteenth-century Spain to England. The tone shifts from the tragic inevitability of The Planter of Malata and the pathos of Because of the Dollars to the gothic The Inn of the Two Witches and the grim humour of The Partner. The form of the stories was experimental but does not obscure Conrad's humanity or his search for moral truth