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Joseph Conrad

Born

in Berdychiv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire

December 03, 1857

Died

August 03, 1924

Genre

Fiction

Influences

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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 · 742,792 ratings · 37,316 reviews · 3,082 distinct works • Similar authors

	Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 555,991 ratings — published 1899 — 3110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lord Jim 3.61 avg rating — 32,919 ratings — published 1900 — 2324 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad, A. Michael Matin (Introduction) 3.77 avg rating — 23,647 ratings — published 1899 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Agent 3.58 avg rating — 24,788 ratings — published 1907 — 1302 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nostromo 3.81 avg rating — 17,883 ratings — published 1904 — 1803 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer 3.51 avg rating — 18,255 ratings — published 1910 — 153 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad, Jeremy Hawthorn (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.68 avg rating — 6,961 ratings — published 1916 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heart of Darkness and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad, Cedric Watts (Editor) 3.55 avg rating — 6,757 ratings — published 1990 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Sharer 3.63 avg rating — 5,944 ratings — published 1910 — 765 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Youth, a Narrative 3.68 avg rating — 4,496 ratings — published 1898 — 578 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 325 pages, 1962

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18 votes, 8.7%

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 331 pages, 1911

18 votes, 8.7%

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 277 pages, 1953

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 254 pages, 1890

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14 votes, 6.7%

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14 votes, 6.7%

1984 by George Orwell, 268 pages, 1949

13 votes, 6.3%

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 453 pages, 1961

12 votes, 5.8%

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages, 1960

11 votes, 5.3%

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10 votes, 4.8%

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 786 pages, 1844

7 votes, 3.4%

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov, 212 pages, 1934

7 votes, 3.4%

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5 votes, 2.4%

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