Learn about Joseph Conrad's life and how it influenced his work. Review a list of Conrad's most famous books, including brief summaries and common...
Joseph Conrad was an author who is remembered for novels like 'Heart of Darkness,' which drew on his experience as a mariner and addressed profound themes of nature and existence.
Produced by John Orford GASPAR RUIZ By Joseph Conrad I A REVOLUTIONARY war raises many strange characters out of the obscurity which is the common lot of humble lives in an undisturbed state of society. Certain individualities grow into fame through thei
. Although Conrad’s posthumously published unfinished final novel was called Suspense (1925), I’m pretty certain he had little actual interest in suspense and that I was applying the wrong reading protocols, but everyone should have that intense an experience the first time they read Conrad. ...
内容简介· ··· The Polish-born Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is widely considered be one of the finest English write His life at sea and in foreign port around the world furnished most the material for his books, which include Lord dim, The Secret A and perhaps his best-known story ...
JOSEPH CONRAD Les petites marionnettes Font, font, font,Trois petits tours Et puis s’en vont.–NURSERY RHYME TOMISS M. H. M. CAPES [page intentionally blank] AUTHOR’S NOTE THE six stories in this volume are the result of some three or four years of occasional work. The dates of ...
Muirhead Bone1 had arranged that I should do a bust of Conrad for him. I had desired, ten years before, to work from him and had spoken to Richard Curie2 about it, but had been informed by him that Conrad could not sit for me owing to the intervention of a painter 'friend'. At ...
In 1913, Joseph Conrad experienced a commercial breakthrough with the publication of his novelChance. Today it is not viewed as one of his best works, but it outsold all of his previous novels and left the author with financial security for the rest of his life. It was the first of his...
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak English well until he was in hi...
In the novel Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, we're introduced to Jim, a young man with a deep passion for seafaring. He dreams of heroic deeds and yearns for an opportunity to demonstrate his bravery, unbeknownst of the trials that await him. Jim's first test comes when he begins working as...