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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

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.49 · 742,770 ratings · 37,313 reviews · 3,082 distinct works • Similar authors
Heart of Darkness
3.43 avg rating — 555,975 ratings — published 1899 — 3110 editions
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Lord Jim
3.61 avg rating — 32,918 ratings — published 1900 — 2324 editions
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Heart of Darkness and Selec...
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3.77 avg rating — 23,647 ratings — published 1899 — 21 editions
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The Secret Agent
3.58 avg rating — 24,784 ratings — published 1907 — 1302 editions
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Nostromo
3.81 avg rating — 17,883 ratings — published 1904 — 1803 editions
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Heart of Darkness and The S...
3.51 avg rating — 18,255 ratings — published 1910 — 153 editions
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The Shadow-Line
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3.68 avg rating — 6,961 ratings — published 1916 — 38 editions
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Heart of Darkness and Other...
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The Secret Sharer
3.63 avg rating — 5,944 ratings — published 1910 — 765 editions
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Youth, a Narrative
3.68 avg rating — 4,496 ratings — published 1898 — 578 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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Polls

June 2024 Old School Classics Poll

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 1838, 608 pages
 
  61 votes, 24.2%

As You Like It by William Shakespeare, 1599, 263 pages
 
  59 votes, 23.4%

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, 1907, 304 pages
 
  39 votes, 15.5%

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, `400 BCE, 107 pages
 
  30 votes, 11.9%

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886, 288 pages
 
  28 votes, 11.1%

 
  18 votes, 7.1%

The Man of Property by John Galsworthy, 1906, 364 pages
 
  17 votes, 6.7%

252 total votes
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