...political assassins and more. In this collection of excerpts from famous and canonical writers in the genre such as Joseph Conrad, Maxim Gorky, John Steinbeck and Rebecca West, you'll find everything from raw anger to regret over what must...

...Emerson: "The wonder is always new that a sane man would be a sailor." After talking with crewpersons, I think Joseph Conrad may be correct, that "There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting and enslaving than the life at sea." Enslaved...

...title story fantasizes about two typists supposedly hired by two giants of 20th-century fiction: Henry James and Joseph Conrad. Miss Lilian Hallowes and Miss Theodora Bosanquet achieve what seems to them a bit of literary immortality. They...

...included are "Lifeboat," featuring Tallulah Bankhead; "The Paradine Case," with Peck; "Sabotage," adapted from Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent"; and the murder mysteries "The Lodger" and "Young and Innocent." The eight-disc package...