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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 · 745,013 ratings · 37,500 reviews · 3,096 distinct works • Similar authors
Heart of Darkness
3.43 avg rating — 557,736 ratings — published 1899 — 8314 editions
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Lord Jim
3.61 avg rating — 32,981 ratings — published 1900 — 57 editions
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3.77 avg rating — 23,649 ratings — published 1899 — 21 editions
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The Secret Agent
3.58 avg rating — 24,866 ratings — published 1907 — 2117 editions
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Nostromo
3.81 avg rating — 17,919 ratings — published 1904 — 1803 editions
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Heart of Darkness and The S...
3.52 avg rating — 18,271 ratings — published 1910 — 8 editions
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The Shadow-Line
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3.68 avg rating — 6,994 ratings — published 1916 — 908 editions
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Heart of Darkness and Other...
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The Secret Sharer
3.63 avg rating — 5,958 ratings — published 1910 — 766 editions
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Youth, a Narrative
3.68 avg rating — 4,507 ratings — published 1898 — 577 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

July 2023 Old School Classics Poll

Medea by Euripides, 432, 59 pp
 
  73 votes, 28.9%

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 1899, 400 pp
 
  68 votes, 26.9%

The Aeneid by Virgil, -19, 484 pp
 
  40 votes, 15.8%

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 1859, 586 pp
 
  36 votes, 14.2%

Lysistrata by Aristophanes, -424, 54 pp
 
  29 votes, 11.5%

 
  7 votes, 2.8%

253 total votes
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