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JOSEPH CONRAD (1856– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 968 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:CONRAD (1856– )  , See also:English novelist, was See also:born in See also:Poland, his full name having been See also:Joseph See also:Conrad Korzeniowski . He learnt See also:French in See also:infancy, but did not learn English until he was nearly twenty . At See also:Constantinople, where he had gone with the intention of joining the Russians against the See also:Turks, he joined the French See also:merchant See also:navy . Later on he found his way to See also:Lowestoft in See also:England, and, after obtaining his See also:mate's certificate, he sailed for the See also:East in an English See also:ship . The See also:story of this voyage is told in Youth, and other Tales (1902) . His See also:chief other volumes are Almayer's Folly (1895), An Outcast of the Islands (1896), The Nigger of the See also:Narcissus (1897), Tales of Unrest (1898), See also:Lord Jim (19oo), See also:Typhoon (1903), The See also:Mirror of, the See also:Sea (1906), and, with F . M . Hueffer, See also:Romance (1903) . All these are remarkable for their vigorous English See also:style, and the vivid description of See also:exotic scenes; the author being especially successful in tracing the effects of tropical surroundings and the contact with Asiatics on See also:European sailors and traders . His See also:play One See also:Day More was produced by the See also:Stage Society in See also:June 1905 .

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