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Joseph Conrad


Born
in Berdychiv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
December 03, 1857

Died
August 03, 1924

Genre
Fiction

Influences
Ivan Turgenev, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Ford Madox Ford, Willia ...more


Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable, and amoral world.
Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic fi ...more

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Average rating: 3.49 · 759,319 ratings · 39,059 reviews · 3,359 distinct works • Similar authors
Heart of Darkness
3.43 avg rating — 568,721 ratings — published 1899 — 8302 editions
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Lord Jim
3.61 avg rating — 33,451 ratings — published 1900 — 2328 editions
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The Secret Agent
3.58 avg rating — 25,327 ratings — published 1907 — 2115 editions
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3.77 avg rating — 23,700 ratings — published 1899 — 21 editions
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Nostromo
3.81 avg rating — 18,195 ratings — published 1904 — 1808 editions
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Heart of Darkness and The S...
3.52 avg rating — 18,402 ratings — published 1910 — 150 editions
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3.68 avg rating — 7,215 ratings — published 1916 — 903 editions
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The Secret Sharer
3.63 avg rating — 6,092 ratings — published 1910 — 782 editions
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Youth, a Narrative
3.67 avg rating — 4,668 ratings — published 1857 — 575 editions
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Quotes by Joseph Conrad  (?)
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“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance
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“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
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November 2021 New School Classics Group Read

The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura, 1906, 133 pages
 
  46 votes, 24.3%

 
  42 votes, 22.2%

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 1900, 384 pages
 
  28 votes, 14.8%

 
  25 votes, 13.2%

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić, 1945, 314 pages
 
  17 votes, 9.0%

 
  17 votes, 9.0%

Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset, 1909, 161 pages
 
  7 votes, 3.7%

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, 1987, 368 pages
 
  7 votes, 3.7%

189 total votes
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