Did you know that almost all of Conrad's writings were first published in newspapers and magazines? Influential reviews like the Fortnightly Review and the North American Review. Avant-garde publications like the Savoy, New Review, and the English Review. Popular short-fiction magazines like the Saturday Evening Post and Harper's Magazine. Women's journals like the Pictorial Review and Romance. Mass-circulation dailies like the Daily Mail and the New York Herald. Illustrated newspapers like the Illustrated London News and the Illustrated Buffalo Express. Even small military gazettes like Reveille and Fledgling.

Conrad First restores to these original contexts Conrad's best-known works of fiction as well as his many other prose writings. Here you will find Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim alongside colonial fiction and political commentary in Blackwood's Magazine, "Typhoon" illustrated by Maurice Grieffenhagen in Pall Mall Magazine, Nostromo next to articles explaining "How to Study English Literature" in T.P.'s Weekly, The Secret Agent facing advertisements for washing machines in Ridgway's Magazine, Under Western Eyes in the company of works by Leo Tolstoy, H.G. Wells, Bernard Shaw, and Arnold Bennett in the English Review, and many more besides.

Now you can read Conrad the way his first audiences did, in the pages of newspapers and magazines alongside the latest news, feature articles, editorials, short stories, photographs, illustrations, competitions, weather forecasts, sporting results, financial reports, cartoons, and advertisements. Topical, stimulating, and packed with information, this wide range of serials gives an insight into the reading habits of early-twentieth-century audiences in Britain, the United States, and around the world.

Conrad First's archive of facsimile serials is fast and easy to use. You can survey Conrad's serialization history in chronological sequence, browse a particular periodical, or trace the appearance of parts of a Conrad work or book volume through a number of different periodicals. Viewable in different sizes to suit your computer and connection speed, the pages can be printed off or saved to disk.

The pull-down menu within each serialization allows you to move quickly between successive issues of a periodical. Pages containing Conrad's work are highlighted in white:

Conrad First has been made available through the generous support of the Department of English, Uppsala University.