This is an odd book to be reading right now. Joseph Conrad might be credited with writing one of the first novels to cover the subject of t...

Should have posted this last night but things intervened so here is the last post on The Secret Agent with just a review to come. Having st...

The consequences of the suicide bombing come home to roost in quite dramatic style. As the two senior policemen fight it out to protect and ...

They were discussing Conrad on Radio 4’s Front Row programme tonight pointing out the similarities between his wiring and Henry James. Have ...

This book could have been written now with the emphasis on suicide bombers and the debate about the importance of instilling terror in a pop...

It takes a while to get into this book. The story doesn’t flow from the start and it is difficult working out just exactly what is happening...

With all the focus on Joseph Conrad's 150th anniversary, with a good piece in The Guardian at the weekend about him it only seemed righ...

This book by Joseph Conrad followed on the heels of Petersburg by Andrei Bely, which is also set in Russia around the period 1905 when thr...

Although Conrad is not strictly a Russian writer, because he took British nationality although was born in the Ukraine, he manages to get th...

Part of the key to Razumov’s behaviour is not just his dilemma about being immersed in a revolutionary circle he can’t stand but also his fe...

Once chance encounter with Haladin, who has identified Razumov as being a like-minded friend, leads to his life being ruined and identificat...

The key to Under Western Eyes is that the narrator is not Russian yet involved with the major characters in such a way he is intimate with ...

As the story develops you are faced with the interesting situation where the narrator, who has up to now been using Razumov’s diary as the s...

Against a backdrop of anti-Tsarist feeling the hero of the book wants to rise up the ranks and overcome his problems. The way Conrad approac...

This book, Under Western Eyes , leapt put at me in the library because of the cover illustration. It could not be closer to echoing the them...

This is only the second Joseph Conrad book I have read, the other being The Heart of Darkness , but they both have several things in common...

this short but odd tale of the sea ends and leaves you wondering if everything that Conrad writes has this edge of the supernatural to it. I...

The story starts to get interesting as the ship and the crew pit their mental strength against an unforseen enemy - the weather and the cur...

Lunchtime came and went and the afternoon was spent with my sons watching Flushed Away, which was a great film, so here is the delayed thoug...

This can hardly be called a lunchtime post but anyway until I get back to posting at the right time here here are the highlights from chapte...