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Joseph Conrad's career at sea; Bolesław Prus; King Leopold's Ghost; Alice Sarah Kinkead; List of Poles (prose literature) List of covers of Time magazine (1920s) – 7 April 1923; ORP Conrad – a World War II Polish Navy cruiser named after Joseph Conrad; Politics in fiction; Stefan Bobrowski, one of Conrad's maternal uncles. Like Conrad's ...
Before embarking on writing, he had a career sailing in the French, then the British, merchant marine. Of his 19-year merchant-marine career, about half that time was spent actually at sea. Conrad wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.
The works of Joseph Conrad encompass novels, short stories, nonfiction, and memoirs. Although he was born in Ukraine and spoke Polish and French fluently from childhood, he wrote in English, which he did not learn until his twenties.
A Personal Record is an autobiographical work (or "fragment of biography") by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912.. It has also been published under the titles A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences and Some Reminiscences.
Conrad, at the age of 44, embarked on his first major literary project, Nostromo, completed and published in 1904. In composing Nostromo, Conrad sought to present a broader social landscape in his work. The subject of his early writing, involving “moral dramas tested by the unfamiliar menace of a primitive world” were in abeyance during ...
Conrad: The Novelist. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. LOC Catalog Card Number 58-8995. ISBN 978-0674163508; Said, Edward W. 1966. The Past and Present: Conrad's Shorter Fiction, from Said's Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography.Harvard University Press, in Joseph Conrad: Modern Critical Reviews, Harold Bloom editor.
Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, [1] through which Conrad achieved "popular success." [2]
The captain informed Conrad that many of his old colleagues were avid readers of his literary fiction. Though he had not written a short story for years, Conrad was inspired to write the works that would be collected in ‘Twixt Land and Sea. [2] [3] Conrad wrote to his literary agent J. B. Pinker on Marris’ visit in October 1909: