Joseph Conrad
Full Name: Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
Date of Birth: 3 December 1857
Place of Birth: Berdichev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (now part of the Ukraine)
Date of Death: 3 August 1924
Place of Death: Bishopsbourne, Kent, England
Conrad 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 honour.
Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors.
Films have been adapted from or inspired by Conrad's Victory, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, An Outcast of the Islands, The Rover, The Shadow Line, The Duel, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, and Almayer's Folly.
Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the French and later the British Merchant Navy to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a worldwide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul.
Books Written
- 1895 "Almayer's Folly" by Joseph Conrad
- 1896 "An Outcast of the Islands" by Joseph Conrad
- 1897 "The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'" by Joseph Conrad
- 1899 "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
- 1900 "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad
- 1901 "The Inheritors" by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford
- 1902 "Typhoon" by Joseph Conrad
- 1903 "Romance" by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford
- 1904 "Nostromo" by Joseph Conrad
- 1907 "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad
- 1911 "Under Western Eyes" by Joseph Conrad
- 1913 "Chance" by Joseph Conrad
- 1915 "Victory" by Joseph Conrad
- 1917 "The Shadow Line" by Joseph Conrad
- 1919 "The Arrow of Gold" by Joseph Conrad
- 1920 "The Rescue" by Joseph Conrad
- 1923 "The Nature of a Crime" by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford
- 1923 "The Rover" by Joseph Conrad
- 1925 "Suspense: a Napoleonic Novel" by Joseph Conrad (unfinished, published posthumously)
Sources
Wikipedia contributors. "Joseph Conrad." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 12 Sep. 2011. Web. 13 Sep. 2011.
