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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 · 739,554 ratings · 36,988 reviews · 2,935 distinct works • Similar authors

	Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 553,581 ratings — published 1899 — 8327 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 — 32,817 ratings — published 1900 — 2319 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 — 23,633 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 — 24,675 ratings — published 1907 — 34 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 — 17,828 ratings — published 1904 — 1807 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 — 18,229 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 — 6,914 ratings — published 1916 — 909 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 — 6,735 ratings — published 1990 — 62 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 — 5,907 ratings — published 1910 — 766 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 — 4,461 ratings — published 1857 — 90 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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