Joseph Conrad: Stories

In a czarist city of spies and informers, a timid student is coerced into betraying a fiery revolutionary and then driven abroad to face the exiles who trusted him. Torn between cowardice, guilt, and a desperate need to be understood, he stumbles through plots, interrogations, and doomed love, seeking a truth that may destroy him.

The novel follows a Swedish man who has adopted a philosophy of detachment from the world, choosing to live alone on a remote island.

Short story in which Marlow tells a group of companions about his very first voyage to the East.