Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born British novelist, who became a British subject in 1886. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honor. (Source.)
Joseph Conrad
Author details
- Aliases:
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Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad Korzeniowski
- Born:
- Dec. 2, 1857
- Died:
- Aug. 2, 1924
External links
Books by Joseph Conrad
Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th edition, Volume 2
by Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Edward Morgan Forster, and 63 others
