Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Writing

Birthday

1857/12/02

Day of death

1924/08/03 (66 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Berdichev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]

Also know as

Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski

Biography

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish-born English novelist. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honour. Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English...Read more

Acting
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
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(2014) Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

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The Golden Twenties
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(1950) The Golden Twenties

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