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Conrad, Joseph
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Conrad, Joseph (1857–1924). Writer. Conrad was born in the Ukraine, son of a revolutionary who was sent into internal exile. He went to sea, first visiting England in 1878 and becoming a British citizen in 1886. Though he never spoke English fluently, he wrote in it, publishing
Almayer's Folly in 1895. It was followed rapidly by
An Outcast of the Islands (1896),
The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ (1897),
Lord Jim (1900), and
Nostromo (1904). Conrad drew on his own experiences at sea to write adventures with a moral dimension. In
Lord Jim, Jim, chief mate of the
Patna, ‘eaten up with rust’, abandons ship unnecessarily, is disgraced, and redeems himself by sacrificing his life. ‘Heart of Darkness’ (1902), a long short story, based on Conrad's time in the Congo, is, among other things, a sharp critique of imperialism.
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Conrad, Joseph. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: Volume 6, 1917-1919.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Conradiana; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Conrad, Joseph. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: Volume 6, 1917-1919. Ed. Laurence Davies, Frederick...the biographies by Frederick Karl and Zdzislaw Najder--Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives and Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle--undoubtedly...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald on Joseph Conrad.
Magazine article from: Conradiana; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...greatly influenced by works of Joseph Conrad and that Fitzgerald's use of...narrator of The Great Gatsby reflects Joseph Conrad's use of Marlow as the narrator...published in the United States during Joseph Conrad's visit to this country in 1923...
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Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity.
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 12/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; Robert Hampson's Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity is centrally...Cambridge Edition of The Works of Joseph Conrad, Hampson devotes his eight...articulated by Thomas Moser in Joseph Conrad: Achievement and Decline (1957...
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Conrad, Joseph. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: Volume 7, 1920-1922.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Conradiana; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Conrad, Joseph. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: Volume 7, 1920-1922. Ed. Laurence Davies and J...ISBN 978-0-52156-196-9 I. The publication of Joseph Conrad's letters is one of the great projects of modern scholarship...
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Joseph Conrad's Many Lives
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/21/1991; ; 700+ words
; JOSEPH CONRAD A Biography By Jeffrey Meyers Scribners...pp. $27.50 WE SHOULD have mastered Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) by now, but we haven...page volume symptomatically titled Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives. The three lives...
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Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper.
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...recalls Mark A. Wollaeger's Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism...Culture and Irony: Studies in Joseph Conrad's Major Novels) or Steve Ressler (Joseph Conrad: Consciousness and Integrity...
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Joseph Conrad's "The Planter of Malata": timing, and the forgotten adventures of the silk plant "Arghan".(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Textile; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Abstract Joseph Conrad's 1914 short story "The Planter...colonial botany, Pacific transfers, Joseph Conrad, silk fiber ********* [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Joseph Conrad's 1914 short story "The Planter...
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Gene Moore, ed. Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness': A Casebook.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Conradiana; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Gene Moore, ed. Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness': A...such as G. F. W. Hope's "Joseph Conrad's First Cruise on the Nellie...Cyril Clemens's "A Chat with Joseph Conrad" (1966). In so doing, the...
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Stephen Donovan. Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Conradiana; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Stephen Donovan. Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture. Basingstoke...0810-9 The introduction to Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture begins with...Such examples illustrate how Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture extends the...
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Transforming the hero: Joseph Conrad's reconfiguring of masculine identity in "The Secret Sharer".
Magazine article from: Conradiana; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...which I can't find a name for. Joseph Conrad, "The Secret Sharer" (1...When the narrator of Joseph Conrad's short story "The Secret Sharer...Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. Joseph Conrad, in a letter to Edward Garnett...
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Conrad, Joseph
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Joseph Conrad Born: December 3, 1857Berdyczew, Poland...novelist Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad is one of the great modern writers of...zef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski (Joseph Conrad) was born to Joseph Theodore Appollonius...
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Joseph Conrad
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Joseph Conrad The Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was concerned with men under stress...Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski (to use the name which Joseph Conrad later drastically simplified for his English readers...
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Guerard, Albert (Joseph)
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
GUERARD, Albert (Joseph) Nationality: American. Born: Houston...London, Oxford University Press, 1942. Joseph Conrad. New York, New Directions, 1947...Press, 1951; revised edition, 1969. Conrad the Novelist. Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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Said, Edward
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...he wrote a PhD dissertation on Joseph Conrad, then joined Columbia in 1963...literary theory. His dissertation on Joseph Conrad ’ s letters was influenced...and became his first book, Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography...
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Ford Madox Ford
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...published when he was 19. In 1898 Joseph Conrad, on the recommendation of William...The Nature of a Crime. Ford's Joseph Conrad (1924) discusses the techniques...Earliest Days to the Death of Joseph Conrad, 1929; Return to Yesterday...
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