Joseph Conrad

Józef Korzeniowski, who signed himself Joseph Conrad, was born in 1857 in Ukraine under Russian rule, the son of a Polish patriot deported to Vologda; he lost his mother in exile, then his father in Kraków. He went to sea from Marseille at sixteen and sailed for twenty years, some fifteen of them under the British flag, until his master's certificate. He learned English after the age of twenty, after Polish and French, and wrote his books only in that language. Naturalised British at twenty-eight, he refused a knighthood and died in Kent in 1924.

In the catalogue 2

• NovelLord JimJoseph Conrad · 1900Literature
• NovelHeart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · 1902LiteraturePublic domain