Few authors can compare with the excess of the invention, the variety of records, the depth of immersion of his journey into the darkest and most hidden places of the mind and the descriptive finesse of Joseph Conrad. The whole of the short narrative of one of the most decisive and fundamental authors of the twentieth century, from stories in which he rehearsed motifs for his major works to some of his pieces, is collected here in Spanish for the first time in some cases Better solved like Typhoon, The secret accomplice, or Falk, or novels so unknown by the reader in Spanish like The settler of Malata or The soul of the warrior and, also, its most celebrated work, The heart of the darknesses. Conrad marvels at us with a multitude of sailors, anarchists, lucid lunatics and delirious killers; The terrain on which man begins to play with fire is definitely the terrain on which all the art and hypnotic talent of Conrad unfold. The meeting in a single volume of all the short narrative conradiana along with his short novels, in a new and careful translation by Andrés Barba and Carmen M. Cáceres, is a literary event whose importance will not go unnoticed. SELECTION: The idiots The lagoon An advance of progress Karain: a memory The return Youth The heart of darkness Amy Foster Typhoon Morning The end of the bonds Falk, a memory An anarchist Gaspar Ruiz, a romantic story The informant The beast The black officer The duel Il Conde The secret accomplice A wink of fortune Prince Roman The partner Freya of the seven islands The inn of the two witches The planter of Malata Because of the dollars The soul of the warrior The tale