Summary
The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad by John Stape (Heinemann, 20)
WHEN Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was born in 1857 in the Russian-ruled Ukrainian town of Berdichev, to Apollo Korzeniowski, a quarrelsome Polish nationalist, and his wife, it was hardly on the cards that some 50 years later this sickly infant would be a major British novelist, the acclaimed author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and The Secret Agent.See the full content of this document
Extract
Trials of 'a Bloody Amazing Voyager'
The successful, anglicised Joseph Conrad knew that some still regarded him as "a sort of freak, a bloody amazing furriner writing in English". But he saw himself as only the more British for having started off so foreign. He ...
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