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Joseph Conrad


Born
in Berdichev (formerly Poland), Ukraine
December 03, 1857

Died
August 03, 1924

Genre
Fiction

Influences
Ivan Turgenev, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Ford Madox Ford, Willia ...more


Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski ) was a Polish-born English novelist who today is most famous for Heart of Darkness, his fictionalized account of Colonial Africa.

Conrad left his native Poland in his middle teens to avoid conscription into the Russian Army. He joined the French Merchant Marine and briefly employed himself as a wartime gunrunner. He then began to work aboard British ships, learning English from his shipmates. He was made a Master Mariner, and served more than sixteen years before an event inspired him to try his hand at writing.

He was hired to take a steamship into Africa, and according to Conrad, the experience of seeing firsthand the horrors of colonial rule left him a changed man.

Joseph Conrad sett ...more

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Average rating: 3.49 · 697,983 ratings · 32,861 reviews · 2,779 distinct works • Similar authors
Heart of Darkness
3.43 avg rating — 522,037 ratings — published 1899 — 4269 editions
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3.62 avg rating — 31,517 ratings — published 1900 — 2208 editions
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3.77 avg rating — 23,449 ratings — published 1899 — 17 editions
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3.59 avg rating — 23,189 ratings — published 1907 — 2042 editions
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Nostromo
3.81 avg rating — 17,142 ratings — published 1904 — 1748 editions
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Heart of Darkness and The S...
3.51 avg rating — 17,872 ratings — published 1910 — 135 editions
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“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance
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“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
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“We live as we dream--alone....”
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July 2023 Old School Classics Poll

Medea by Euripides, 432, 59 pp
 
  76 votes, 29.2%

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 1899, 400 pp
 
  68 votes, 26.2%

The Aeneid by Virgil, -19, 484 pp
 
  44 votes, 16.9%

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 1859, 586 pp
 
  36 votes, 13.8%

Lysistrata by Aristophanes, -424, 54 pp
 
  29 votes, 11.2%

 
  7 votes, 2.7%

260 total votes
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