Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski ) was a Polish-born English novelist who today is most famous for Heart of Darkness, his fictionalized account of Colonial Africa. Conrad left his native Poland in his middle teens to avoid conscription into the Russian Army. He joined the French Merchant Marine and briefly employed himself as a wartime gunrunner. He then began to work aboard British ships, learning English from his shipmates. He was made a Master Mariner, and served more than sixteen years before an event inspired him to try his hand at writing. He was hired to take a steamship into Africa, and according to Conrad, the experience of seeing firsthand the horrors of colonial rule left him a changed man. Joseph Conrad settled in England in 1894, the year before he published his first novel. He was deeply interested in a small number of writers both in French and English whose work he studied carefully. This was useful when, because a need to come to terms with his experience, lead him to write Heart of Darkness, in 1899, which was followed by other fictionalized explorations of his life. He has been lauded as one of the most powerful, insightful, and disturbing novelists in the English canon despite coming to English later in life, which allowed him to combine it with the sensibilities of French, Russian, and Polish literature.
Series
Books
Selected Short Stories
1917
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
1899
An Outpost of Progress
1896
The Return
1898
The Secret Sharer and other stories
1962
The Mirror Of The Sea & A Personal Record
1912
Typhoon
1902
Great Short Works of Joseph Conrad
1910
The Lagoon
1897
The Nigger of the Narcissus
Typhoon and other stories
1963
One Day More
2007
The Nigger of the Narcissus and The Secret Sharer
1910
Freya of the Seven Isles
1912
The Tale
1917
Almayer's Folly
1892
The Nigger of the Narcissus and Other Stories
1908
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol
4
2024
A Conrad Argosy
1942
Cuentos de amor victorianos
2006
A Smile of Fortune
1910
Three Great Tales
1958
Tales Of Hearsay
1917
The Selected Works of Joseph Conrad
1911
Suspense
1925
The Secret Sharer
1910
The Rover
1923
To-morrow
1902
50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol
01 [newly updated]
2012
Heart of Darkness and Other Stories
1900
The End of the Tether and Other Stories
1902
Victory
1915
Joseph Conrad
The Complete Novels
2003
Heart of Darkness
2010
Works of Joseph Conrad
2007
Lord Jim
1900
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100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 1]
2020
Joseph Conrad Classics
The Secret Agent & Under Western Eyes
2012
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
1902
Falk
1901
Youth
1852
Tales of Unrest
1898
The Shadow-Line
1916
Heart of Darkness; Almayer's Folly; The Lagoon; and Other Stories
1899
A Set of Six
1908
Under Western Eyes
1911
Heart of Darkness and the Secret Agent
1997
The Mirror of the Sea
1906
Nostromo
1904
The planter of Malata
1914
Complete Short Stories
1991
Heart of Darkness & Tales of Unrest
1996
Youth/Heart of Darkness/Typhoon
1902
Lord Jim & Nostromo
1904
An Outcast of the Islands
1896
Heart of Darkness
1899
'Twixt Land and Sea
1912
Youth & The End of the Tether
1902
Amy Foster
1901
The Inheritors
1901
The Secret Agent
1907
El corazón de las tinieblas - Tifón
1989
O duchach
2020
Within the Tides
1911
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer
1910
The Rescue
1920
Joseph Conrad
The Complete Collection
1938
Conrad's Congo
2023
The Arrow of Gold
1919
O Coração das Trevas
2021
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1
2017
50 Greatest Short Stories
2015
Youth
And Two Other Stories
1924
Typhoon and Other Tales
1902
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die, vol 3
2019
Almayer's Folly & The Rover
2011
A Personal Record
1912
Tales of Land and Sea
1917
The Idiots
1896
A Estalagem das Duas Bruxas
1913
Karain
1897
The Black Mate
1908
Conrad Classics
Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Other Seafaring Tales
2013
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent
Two Novels by Joseph Conrad
2023
The End of the Tether
1928
Three Sea Stories
Typhoon, Falk, and the Shadow-Line
1915
El duelo
1908
Selected Stories Joseph Conrad
1929
Gaspar Ruiz
1906
