Questions on Joseph Conrad in a recruitment examination

i am trying to remember the name of a book with short stories inside. i remember 2 stories from it: 1. there was an astronaut on a foreign planet with flowers all around called floofs or phoofs, i forgot. his helmet broke and he fell upon those flowers and found out that he can actually breath th...

I recently read The Moon is Down from John Steinbeck and I noticed that the conquerors and the conquered are not defined. Throughout the novel are several allusions that the conquerors are German (they talk about their Great Leader and there is this exact quote 'Memories of defeats in Belgium and...

I'm looking for an English poem, in fact I think it was at least two poems, that consisted of captital A's, representing the Ford Model A, moving as if in traffic, and another that had both A's and T's. The first, with only A's, was two vertical columns with only a few A's, representing the begin...