biography
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Conrad, Joseph
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originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski
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| male
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| lived:
| (1857–1924)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Berdichev, WC Ukraine. He joined the British merchant navy, and became a British national in 1886. He sailed to many parts of the world, married in 1896, and settled in Ashford, Kent. His first novel was Almayer's Folly (1895). His best-known works are The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), and Chance (1914). He also wrote many short stories; and the short novel Heart of Darkness (1902) anticipates many 20th-c themes and effects. His fiction has been a favourite subject for film and television adaptation. |
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