Peter Dann
Under Western Eyes (version 2)
"But it is a vain enterprise for sophisticated Europe to try and understand these doings." Set in St Petersburg and Geneva, this a…
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to ru…
An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)
This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional ten…
Tales of Hearsay
In the time of Napoleon, a thoughtful and romantic young Russian officer finds himself asked to do something unthinkable. In 1868, a Polish …
Notes on Life and Letters
Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conr…
A Man Could Stand Up
'A Man Could Stand Up' is the third, and culminating, part of Ford Madox Ford's 'Parade's End' tetralogy of novels, which begins with 'Some …
The Shadow-Line (Version 2)
In this engaging and well-crafted novella, an older man recalls how a combination of obscure personal impulses and diabolical co-incidences …
Last Post
This is the last novel in Ford Madox Ford's "Parade's End" tetralogy. Its predecessors "Some Do Not", "No More Para…
The Romany Rye
"The Romany Rye" is a direct continuation of George Borrow's "Lavengro", taking up the latter's story immediately where …
Within The Tides
A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…
In Chancery
For a late Victorian Briton, to be "in chancery" could mean literally to be involved in a law suit (such as, for example, a divorc…
To Let (The Forsyte Saga, Vol. 3)
In this, the final part of The Forsyte Saga trilogy, Soames Forsyte's much doted-upon daughter Fleur (by Soames' second wife, Annette) chanc…
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Version 2)
"(O)f all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing…