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Joseph Conrad


(Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski)
Poland (1857 - 1924)

Joseph Conrad (originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. His parents, ardent Polish patriots, died when he was a child, following their exile for anti-Russian activities, and he came under the protection of his tradition-conscious uncle, Thaddeus Bobrowski, who watched over him for the next twenty-five years.

In 1874 Bobrowski conceded to his nephew's passionate desire to go to sea, and Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice.

In 1886 he obtained British nationality and his Master's certificate in the British Merchant Service. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year he married Jessie George and eventually settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes.

He continued to write until his death in 1924. Today Conrad is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in English - his third language.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Series
Lingard Trilogy
   1. Almayer's Folly (1895)
   2. An Outcast of the Islands (1896)
   3. The Rescue (1920)
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Novels
   The Shifting of the Fire (1892) (with Ford Madox Ford)
   The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897)
   Lord Jim (1900)
   Romance (1900) (with Ford Madox Ford)
   The Inheritors (1901) (with Ford Madox Ford)
   Heart of Darkness (1902)
   Nostromo (1904)
   The Secret Agent (1907)
   The Point of Honor (1908)
     aka The Duel
   A Set of Six (1908)
   The Nature of Crime (1909) (with Ford Madox Ford)
   The Secret Sharer (1910)
   The Smile of Fortune (1911)
   Under Western Eyes (1911)
   'Twixt Land and Sea (1912)
   A Personal Record (1912)
   Chance (1913)
   Victory (1915)
   Within the Tides (1915)
   The Shadow Line (1917)
   The Arrow of Gold (1919)
   The Black Mate (1922)
   The Rover (1923)
   Suspense (1925)
   The Tremolino (1942)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Amy Foster
   The Idiots (1896)
   An Outpost of Progress (1897)
   The Brute (1908)
   The Inn of the Two Witches (1913)
   The Return (2004)
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Joseph Conrad recommends
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The Time Machine (1895)
H G Wells
"[Wells] contrives to give over humanity into the clutches of the Impossible and yet manages to keep it down (or up) to its humanity, to its flesh, blood, sorrow, folly."
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The Phantom Ship (1839)
Frederick Marryat
"Marryat's greatness is undeniable."

Anthologies containing stories by Joseph Conrad
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The Book of Spies (2003)
An Anthology of Literary Espionage
edited by
Alan Furst
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The Mammoth Book of Sword and Honour (2000)
(The Mammoth Book of ...)
edited by
Mike Ashley
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White Fire (1991)
Further Fantastic Literature
edited by
Alberto Manguel

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