Author: Joseph Conrad

Cites

• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: Nostromo (1904) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: So foul a sky clears not without a storm
    FROM: King John part II, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: Tales of Unrest (1898) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Be it thy course to being giddy minds With foreign quarrels.
    FROM: Henry IV Part 2: Act 4 Scene 3, (1623), Play, UK
• Thomas Browne (1)
  • IN: Chance (1913) Fiction, Speculative fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Those that hold that all things are governed by fortune had not erred, had they not persisted there.
    FROM: Religio Medici, (1643), Book, UK
• Geoffrey Chaucer (3)
  • IN: The Mirror of the Sea (1906) NULL, British
    EPIGRAPH: And shippes by the brinke comen and gon, And in swich forme endure a day or two
    FROM: The Frankeleyn's Tale, (1400), Book, UK
  • IN: The Rescue (1920) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Allas!" quod she, 'that ever this sholde happe! For wende I never, by possibilitee, That swich a monstre or merveille mighte be!"
    FROM: The Canterbury Tales: The Frankeleyn's Tale, (1336), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions (1906) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And shippes by the brinke comen and gon, And in swich forme endure a day or two.
    FROM: The Frankelyn's Tale, (None), Poem, UK
• Novalis (1)
  • IN: Lord Jim (1983) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is certain my Conviction gains infinitely, the moment another soul will believe in it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• John Milton (1)
  • IN: Victory: An Island Tale (1915) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wilderness.
    FROM: Comus, (1637), Book, UK
• Henri Amiel (1)
  • IN: Almayer's Folly (1895) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Qui de nous n'a eu sa terre promise, son jour d'extase et sa fin en exil?
    FROM: Journal Intime, (1884), Book, Switzerland
• Edmund Spenser (1)
  • IN: The Rover (1923) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please
    FROM: The Faerie Queen, (1596), NULL, UK
• John Keats (1)
  • IN: Typhoon (1902) Novella, British
    EPIGRAPH: Far as the mariner on highest mast Can see all around upon the clamed vast, So wide was Neptune's hall ...
    FROM: Endymion, (1818), Poem, UK
• Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm (1)
  • IN: Youth, A Narrative (1902) Short story collection, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... But the Dwarf answered: No; something human is dearer to me than the wealth of all the world.
    FROM: Grimm's Tales, (1812), Book, Germany
• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: Under Western Eyes (1911) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I would take liberty from any hand as a hungry man would snatch a piece of bread.
    FROM: Miss Haldin, Under Western Eyes, (1911), Author, England/Poland
• Keats (1)
  • IN: Typhoon and Other Stories (1901) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Far as the mariner on highest mast Can see all round upon the calmed vast, So wide was Neptune's hall...
    FROM: Endymion, (1818), Poem, UK
• Baudelaire (1)
  • IN: The Shadow-Line (1985) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... -- D'autres fois, calme plat, grand miroir De mon dèsespoir.
    FROM: La Musique, (1857), Poem, France
• Calderon (1)
  • IN: An Outcast of the Islands (1896) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Pues el delito mayor Del hombre es haber nacito
    FROM: la vida es sueño, (1636), Play, Spain
• Amiel (1)
  • IN: Almayer's Folly (1895) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Qui de nous n’a eu sa terre promise, son jour d’extase et sa fin en exil?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL

Cited by

• Anthony Burgess (1)
  • IN: You've had your time: the second part of the confessions (1990) Non-Fiction, Biography, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...as I waited I thought that there's nothing like a confession to make one look mad; and that of all confessions a written one is the most detrimental all round. Never confess! Never, never!
    FROM: Chance, (1913), Novel, Ukraine/ England
• Michael Ondaatje (1)
  • IN: The Cat's Table (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: And this is how I see the East... I see if always from a small boat -- not a light, not a stir, not a sound. We conversed in low whispers, as if afraid to wake up the land. It is all in that moment when I opened my young eyes on it. I came upon it from a tussle with the sea.
    FROM: Youth, (1898), Short Story, Ukraine/ England
• Robert Drewe (1)
  • IN: Montebello (2012) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: I see it always from a small boat - not a light, not a stir, not a sound... It is all in that moment when I opened my young eyes on it. I came upon it from a tussle with the sea.
    FROM: Youth, (1898), Short Story, Ukraine/ England
• Gary Paulsen (1)
  • IN: The Voyage of the Frog (1989) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Only the young have such moments.
    FROM: The Shadow Line, (1916), Novel, Ukraine/ UK
• Ted Staunton (1)
  • IN: Who I'm Not (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Men... have an extraordinary knack of lending themselves to deception, a sort of curious and inexplicable propensity to allow thelselves to be led by the nose with their eyes open.
    FROM: The Mirror of the Sea, (1906), Novel, Ukraine/ England
• Juan Gabriel Vásquez (1)
  • IN: The Secret History of Costaguana (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I want to talk to you of the work I am engaged on now. I hardly dare avow my audacity - but I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana.
    FROM: Letter to Robert Cunningham Graham, (None), Letter, Ukraine/England
• Michael Chabon (1)
  • IN: Wonder Boys (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let them think what they liked, but I didn;t mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank-but that's not the same thing.
    FROM: The Secret Sharer, (1910), Short Story, Ukraine/England
• Orhan Pamuk (2)
  • IN: Snow (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The Westerner in me was discomposed.
    FROM: Under Western Eyes, (1911), Novel, England/Poland
• Pete Hamill (1)
  • IN: Loving Women (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: gone shipmate, like any other man, is gone forever; and I never met one of them again. But at times the spring flood of memory sets with force up the dark River of the Nine Bends. Then on the waters of the forlorn stream drifts a ship — a shadowy ship manned by a crew of Shades. They pass and make a sign, in a shadowy hail. Haven’t we, together and upon the immortal sea, wrung out a meaning from our sinful lives? Good-bye, brothers! You were a good crowd.
    FROM: The Nigger of the Narcissus, (1897), Book, Ukraine/ England
• Jonathan Santlofer (1)
  • IN: The Murder Notebook: A Novel of Suspense (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat?
    FROM: Lord Jim, (1900), Novel, Ukraine/England
• Joseph Finder (1)
  • IN: The Zero Hour (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality- countermoves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.
    FROM: The Secret Agent, (1907), Novel, Ukraine/England
• Francesca Kay (1)
  • IN: The Long Room (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We live, as we dream - alone ...
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, Ukraine/England
• Karen Maitland (2)
  • IN: The Vanishing Witch (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement -- but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
    FROM: Under Western Eyes, (1911), Novel, England/Poland
  • IN: The Vanishing With (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
    FROM: Under Western Eyes, (1911), Novel, England/Poland
• Isaac and Silverberg, Robert Asimov (1)
  • IN: The Ugly Little Boy (1958) Novel, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And, alone in the dim emptiness of the sleeping forecasde he appeared bigger, colossal, very old; old as Father time himself, who should have come there into this place as quiet as a sepulchre to contemplate with patient eyes the short victory of sleep, the consoler. Yet he was only a child of time, a lonely relic of a devoured and forgotten generation…
    FROM: The Nigger of the Narcissus, (1897), Book, Ukraine/ UK
• Robert Silverberg (1)
  • IN: The Face of the Waters (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The ocean has no compassion, no faith, no law, no memory. Its fickleness is to be held true to man’s purpose only by an undaunted resolution and by sleepless, armed, jealous vigilance in which, perhaps, there has always been more hate than love.
    FROM: The Mirror of the Sea, (1906), Novel, Ukraine/England
• Matthew Palmer (1)
  • IN: The Wolf of Sarajevo (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
    FROM: Under Western Eyes, (1911), Novel, England/Poland
• Walter Williams (1)
  • IN: The Rift (1999) Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark places of the earth.”
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, Ukraine/England
• James Crumley (1)
  • IN: One to Count Cadence (1969) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, Ukraine/England
• Toby Vieira (1)
  • IN: Marlow's Landing (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "You are so subtle, Marlow." "Who? I?"
    FROM: Lord Jim, (1900), Novel, England/Poland
• Claude Simon (1)
  • IN: The Trolley (2001) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: ... for him the meaning of an episode is not to be found within it, as inside a nut, but outside, enveloping the tale which has generated it as a light generates a vapor...
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, Ukraine/England
• Dan Simmons (1)
  • IN: Olympos (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: … the real-life history of the earth must in the last instance be a history of a really relentless warfare. Neither his fellows, nor his gods, nor his passions will leave a man alone.
    FROM: Notes on Life and Letters, (1921), Book, Ukraine/England
• Ulrich Peltzer (1)
  • IN: Part of the Solution (2007) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: We live as we dream -- alone.
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, Ukraine/England
• Geoff Nicholson (1)
  • IN: The City Under the Skin (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps... At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there.
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, UK
• Dacia Maraini (1)
  • IN: Train to Budapest (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I asked myself what I was doing there, with a sensation of panic in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and absurd mysteries not fit for a human being to behold. He seemed to stare at me [...] with that wide and immense stare embracing, condemning, loathing all the universe. I seemed to hear the whispered cry, "The horrow! The horror!"
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, UK
• Adrian McKinty (1)
  • IN: The Sun is God (2014) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate needs that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sigh of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
    FROM: Lord Jim, (1900), Novel, Ukraine/England
• Mario Reading (1)
  • IN: The Nostradamus Prophecies (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: As it had never occurred to him to leave word behind, he was mourned over for dead till, after eight months, his first letter arrived from Talcahuano
    FROM: Typhoon, (1902), Novel, Poland
• Richard T. Kelly (1)
  • IN: The Knives (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "I must do my work in my own way," declared the Chief Inspector. "When it comes to that I would deal with the devil himself, and take the consequences. There are things not fit for everybody to know."
    FROM: The Secret Agent, (None), Novel, Ukraine/England
• Richard Kadrey (1)
  • IN: The Kill Society (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, Ukraine/England
• Mathias Énard (1)
  • IN: Street of Thieves (2012) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: "But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind." "Here!" I interrupted. "You can never tell! Here I met Mr. Kurtz."
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, England/Poland
• Philip Kerr (1)
  • IN: The Lady from Zagreb (2015) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1899), Novel, Poland
• B. Catling (1)
  • IN: The Vorrh (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up. One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intolerable and appalling manner: his brother phantom rested its forehead, as if overcome with a great weariness; and all about others were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as in some picture of a massacre or a pestilence. While I stood horror-struck, one of these creatures rose to his hands and knees, and went off on all-fours towards the river to drink. He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone.
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, UK
• Ned Beauman (1)
  • IN: Glow (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Only let the material interests once get a firm footing, and they are bound to impose the conditions on which alone they can continue to exist. That's how your money-making is justified here in the face of lawlessness and disorder. It is justified because the security which it demands must be shared with an oppressed people. A better justice will come afterwards.
    FROM: Nostromo, (1904), Novel, England/Poland
• Dawn Farnham (1)
  • IN: The Shallow Seas (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The shallow sea that foams and murmurs on the shores of the thousand islands, big and little, which make up the Malay Archipelago has been for centuries the scene of adventurous undertakings.
    FROM: The Rescue, (1920), Novel, Poland/England
• William Sinclair, Bertrand (1)
  • IN: The Inverted Pyramid (1924) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "From the duality of man's nature and the competition of individuals the life-history of the earth must in the last instance be a history of a really very relentless warfare. Neither his fellows, nor his gods, nor his passions will leave a man alone."
    FROM: Henry James- An Appreciation, (1905), Essay, UK
• John Mortimer (2)
  • IN: Rumpole and the Reign of Terror (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The terrorist and policeman both come from the same basket.
    FROM: The Secret Agent, (1907), Novel, England/Poland
  • IN: The Sound of Trumpets (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Of course government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.
    FROM: Nostromo, (1904), Novel, UK
• Maya Corrigan (1)
  • IN: By Cook or by Crook (2014) Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.
    FROM: A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House, (1923), NULL, UK
• Colin Cheong (1)
  • IN: The Stolen Child (1989) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: And every time he shuts his eyes he sees himself a very fine fellow - so fine as he can never be ... In a dream ...
    FROM: Lord Jim, (1900), Novel, UK
• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: Under Western Eyes (1911) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I would take liberty from any hand as a hungry man would snatch a piece of bread.
    FROM: Miss Haldin, Under Western Eyes, (1911), Author, England/Poland
• Pierre Boulle (1)
  • IN: The Bridge Over the River Kwai (1954) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: No, it was not funny; it was rather pathetic; he was so representative of all the past victims of the great joke. But it is by folly alone that the world moves, and so it is a respectable thing upon the whole, and, besides, he was what one would call a good man.
    FROM: Victory, (1915), Novel, UK
• Terry Brooks (1)
  • IN: The Tangle Box (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, 'I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.' The light was within a foot of his eyes. I forced myself to murmur, 'Oh, nonsense!' and stood over him as if transfixed. “Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror—of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: “'The horror! The horror!'
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, UK
• Nora Roberts (1)
  • IN: Suite 606 (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
    FROM: Under Western Eyes, (1911), Book, England/Poland