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1 day ago · Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: [ˈjuzɛf tɛˈɔdɔr ˈkɔnrat kɔʐɛˈɲɔfskʲi] ⓘ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.
Jun 27, 2024 · Joseph Conrad (born December 3, 1857, Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Ukraine]—died August 3, 1924, Canterbury, Kent, England) was an English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent, whose works include the novels Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story “Heart ...
Jun 25, 2024 · Joseph Conrad - Novels, Sea, Adventure: Back in London in the summer of 1889, Conrad took rooms near the Thames and, while waiting for a command, began to write Almayer’s Folly. The task was interrupted by the strangest and probably the most important of his adventures.
Jun 21, 2024 · Heart of Darkness is a novella by Joseph Conrad that was first published in 1899. It examines the horrors of Western colonialism, depicting it as a phenomenon that tarnishes not only the lands and peoples it exploits but also those in the West who advance it.
Jul 1, 2024 · Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) and W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) were both orphaned in childhood, learned French before they learned English and left their professions, sailor and doctor, to become writers.
2 days ago · Essay – Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Much controversy has risen to the surface of academic discussions since Heart of Darkness’s publication well over a hundred years ago, quite often around whether the story of steamboat skipper Charlie Marlow’s adventure up the Congo river should be considered a racist work or not. Some critics ...
If you can dig up a copy, The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad, by Jerry Allen is the best I have read of him, covering exactly what the title suggests. I would skip the bio that came out a couple years ago, The Dawn Watch, and anything by Achebe.
