The fifth volume of the complete collection of works by Joseph Conrad offers a completely new view of this writer in the history of Ukrainian book publishing. This volume contains two works - "Heirs" (1901) and "Nature of Crime" (1909) - written by Conrad in co-authorship with the British writer Ford Maddox Ford (Heffer). The central element of The Heirs (1901) is the struggle of political pragmatism against idealism, which will lead to the inevitable defeat of one of the parties. In the pages of this work it is most interesting to find historical parallels (among the characters you can guess the Belgian King Leopold II, the aggressive imperialist Chamberlain and many others). There is a love story in the novel, but it will turn out to be something other than the majority of readers' expectations. The Nature of Crime (1909) is a short story consisting of a series of letters from an anonymous narrator to his beloved but married woman. These letters should be a death knell for her, but the reason for future suicide is not undivided love, but other experiences of the protagonist.
