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	Joseph Conrad - Books and Biography
		Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was born in Berdichev, in the Ukraine, in a region that had once been a part of Poland but was then under Russian rule.
		By 1869 Conrad's both parents had died of tuberculosis, and he was sent to Switzerland to his maternal uncle Tadeusz Bobrowski, who was to be a continuing influence on his life.
		Witnessing the forces of the sea, Conrad developed a deterministic view of the world, which he expressed in a letter in 1897: "What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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	Joseph Conrad
		Conrad discouraged interpretation of his sea novels through evidence from his life, but several of his stories drew the material, events, and personalities from his own experiences in different parts of the world.
		Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, in the Ukraine, in a region that had once been a part of Poland, but was then under Russian rule.
		Conrad died of a heart attack on August 3, 1924 and was buried in Canterbury.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /jconrad.htm (2551 words)

	Joseph Conrad
		Conrad discouraged interpretation of his sea novels through evidence from his life, but several of his novels drew the material, events, and personalities from his own experiences in different parts of the world.
		Conrad often fictionalized the historical moments of liberation of the oppressed, but he focused on the colonists, especially those not already committed to liberation.
		Conrad died on August 3, 1924, of a heart attack and was buried in Canterbury.
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	Joseph Conrad - MSN Encarta
		Conrad is noted not only for his stories of life at sea, his insights into human psychology, and his literary style, but also for his depictions of imperialism and racial issues.
		Conrad’s experiences, especially in the Malay Archipelago and on the Congo River in 1890, are reflected in his writing.
		Conrad’s life at sea and in ports abroad furnished the background for much of his writing, giving rise to the impression that he was primarily committed to foreign concerns.
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	Joseph Conrad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conrad's father, a writer (best known for patriotic tragedies) and translator from French and English, was arrested by the Russian authorities in Warsaw for his activities in support of the 1863 insurrection against Tsarist Russia, and was exiled to Siberia.
		This is the basis of what some linguists (e.g., T. Scovel, 1988) refer to as the "Joseph Conrad effect": while some language learners may easily be discernible from native speakers by their non-standard phonology, they may be regarded as native speakers in terms of their syntax, morphology and lexicon.
		Joseph Conrad died of a heart attack, and was interred in Canterbury Cemetery, Canterbury, England.
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	Joseph Conrad's biography
		Joseph Conrad was born as son of Apollo Korzeniowski and Ewa nee Bobrowska, in Berdyczów (now Berdychiv, Ukraine) on 3 December 1857.
		Conrad's paternal grandfather, Teodor Korzeniowski, captain of the Polish army during the 1830 Insurrection against the Russian rule, lost his estate in the political turbulences of his partitioned country.
		Conrad, and particularly the Conrad of Lord Jim, became then one of the chief moral authorities for the young members of the Polish underground army and civil resistance.
	conrad-centre.w.interia.pl /pages/conrad_life_en.htm (2248 words)

	Joseph Conrad Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
		Joseph Conrad was born Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, the only child of Polish parents in the Russian-controlled Ukraine.
		Conrad and his mother, Evelina Bobrowska, were exiled with Apollo to Northern Russia and Evelina died during this period in 1865.
		Conrad often documented his life in his novels, and this time is described in The Arrow of Gold (1919) and to a lesser extent in The Mirror of the Sea (1906).
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	Joseph Conrad. Biography and complete works
		Conrad discouraged interpretation of his sea novels through evidence from his life, but several of his novels drew the material, events, and personalities from his own experiences in different parts of the world.
		Conrad often fictionalized the historical moments of liberation of the oppressed, but he focused on the colonists, especially those not already committed to liberation.
		Joseph Conrad was born Josef Teodore Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski, in Podolia, Ukraine, in 1857, a large, fertile plain between Poland and Russia that had once been a part of Poland but was then under Russian rule.
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/conrad.htm (1248 words)

	Heart of Darkness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conrad's experiences in the Congo and the historical background to the story, including possible models for Kurtz, are recounted in the historical work, King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild.
		In the opening passages of the novel, Conrad repeatedly describes London in terms of its darkness and "gloom," and later describes Belgium as a dark place.
		This could suggest that Conrad is critical of the supposedly enlightening civilization that is colonising Africa and that London itself is the "Heart of Darkness".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heart_of_Darkness (1480 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Joseph Conrad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Conrad only became famous and financially successful as a novelist with the book publication of Chance in 1914, after which Lord Jim, in particular, was hailed as a masterpiece.
		Conrad became a dependant of his maternal uncle, Thaddeus Bobrowski and was tutored in Switzerland.
		Unhappy at school, from an early age Conrad was enthralled by the sea and he joined the French merchant navy in 1874, becoming an ordinary sailor, much to the displeasure of his family who considered this a rejection of his social and national roots.
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	Joseph Conrad: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Conrad eventually abandoned his education at the age of 17 to become a seaman in the French France quick summary:
		Published in 1901 the inheritors is the first novel ford madox ford and joseph conrad collaborated on....
		Nostromo (1904) is a novel by polish-born united kingdombritish novelist joseph conrad....
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	Joseph Conrad Biography and Summary
		Joseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction.
		Conrad wrote forty-three works of fiction, of which thirty-one are short, ranging from stories of a few pages to novellas of twenty-five thousand to fifty thousand words.
		Joseph Conrad's reputation as a major modern writer rests almost exclusively on his novels and short fiction.
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	Joseph Conrad
		Joseph Conrad’s masterpiece, the novella “Heart of Darkness,” forms an integral part of the school curriculum in English-speaking countries all over the world.
		Conrad does not have a particularly generous view of humanity; he sees his fellow human beings as creatures at the mercy of social forces they do not understand -- forced to deal with ethical questions their culture has never equipped them to handle.
		Joseph Conrad’s fiction takes a hard look at issues of morality in settings where one’s natural instincts are challenged.
	www.storybites.com /conrad.htm (606 words)

	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre
		The background to Conrad as a novelist is complicated and important for understanding the richness of his art.
		Conrad is one of the most important modern.
		Conrad co-operated with Ford Madox Ford in the writing of two novels: The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903).
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	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Joseph Conrad
		Joseph Conrad grew up in the Polish Ukraine, a large, fertile plain between Poland and Russia.
		Conrad's mother, Eva Bobrowska, was thirteen years younger than Apollo and the only surviving daughter in a family of six sons.
		The two-year courtship between the 37-year-old Conrad and the 21-year-old Jessie was somewhat discontinuous in that Conrad pursued other women in the first year of their relationship--but since they all rejected his advances, his attention became strongly focused on Jessie by the autumn of 1895.
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	JOSEPH CONRAD (Teodor Josef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) 1857-1924
		Throughout his fiction Conrad is concerned with moral dilemmas, the isolation of the individual to be tested by experience, and the psychology of inner urges in both groups and individuals.
		Here as elsewhere, the world is seen by Conrad as a place of unending contention between the forces of darkness and dissolution on the one hand and those of brotherhood, duty, and bravery on the other; this belief is sometimes referred to as Manichæism, an early Christian heresy.
		Conrad divides all mankind into two types--the visionaries (who are truly 'young' no matter what their chronological age) and the cynical realists.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/conrad/pva39.html (903 words)

	Joseph Conrad at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
		Joseph Conrad, one of the finest writers of English prose, was Polish and only started speaking English when he was 21.
		Conrad was one of the leading Modernists; his texts, particularly one of his most famous short novels, Heart of Darkness, show an occupation with psychology and the unconscious mind.
		Conrad discouraged interpretation of his sea novels through evidence from his life, but several of his novels drew the material, events, and personalities...
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	Joseph Conrad - Biography and Works
		Józef Teodor Conrad Korzeniowski was born on 3 December 1857 in the Russian occupied city of Berdyczów, Ukraine.
		In 1861 Joseph’s nationalist father, who was an outspoken supporter of the serfs and critic of Poland’s oppressors, was arrested along with his wife for being involved with the Polish National Committee’s anti-Russian activities.
		Little did Conrad know he was on his way to becoming one of the greatest 20th Century novelists, known for his mastery of atmosphere and dramatic realism, at times compared to Rudyard Kipling.
	www.online-literature.com /conrad (1991 words)

	Joseph Conrad Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was concerned with men under stress, deprived of the ordinary supports of civilized life and forced to confront the mystery of human individuality.
		In 1862 Conrad's father, himself a writer and translator, was exiled to Russia for his revolutionary activities, and his wife and child shared the exile.
		Once again, Conrad is concerned with the ways in which sympathy and imagination blur the clear judgment which is essential for the life of action.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/joseph-conrad (1791 words)

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		Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Poland in 1857.
		Joseph went to school in Cracow and Switzerland but what he really wanted to do was to go to the sea.
		Conrad got married in 1895 with Jessie George and had two sons with her.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~bump/E316K/11/11/CONRAD.HTML (398 words)

	Joseph Conrad
		Pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1897, Un avamposto del progresso è la prima opera di finzione narrativa attraverso cui Joseph Conrad ripercorre le esperienze da lui realmente vissute in Congo.
		Questo il luogo entro cui Conrad imprigiona e rovescia tutta la sua abilità di chirurgo narrativo, come pure quella di critico feroce della nature umane.
		Joseph Conrad (Berdiczew, Polonia, 1857 –; Bishopburne, Inghilterra, 1924) intraprese la vita marinaresca come mozzo all’età di diciassettenne anni, imbarcandosi a Marsiglia e toccando ben presto i mari e i porti di tutto il mondo, per poi giungere al comando di una nave appena trentenne.
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	Joseph Conrad Society (UK) - News
		Conrad's grim experiences in the Congo gave birth to his most enigmatic character, Kurtz, whose frightening and tragic story is imaginatively explored in this intense short drama.
		To mark 150th anniversary of Conrad’s birth and the centenary of the publication of The Secret Agent, Rolemop Theatre of Brighton is staging a timely adaptation of Conrad's 1907 novel by Jennifer Porteous and Jon Armstrong.
		The Jagiellonian University's Joseph Conrad Research Centre, together with The Polish Joseph Conrad Society, are hosting a conference at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow.
	www.josephconradsociety.org /news.htm (681 words)

	Amazon.com: Nostromo (Everyman's Library (Cloth)): Books: Joseph Conrad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Writing in 1904, Conrad invented a complex South American country with a turbulent history and a potentially explosive population, ranging from the wealthy gringo running the Sulaco silver mine to the poorest worker loading cargo on the docks.
		This abridgment of Joseph Conrad's classic keeps in mind that the story is as much about the fictional province of Sulaco and the San Tome silver mine as it is about Nostromo, the "incorruptible" sailor who ends up concealing a fortune in silver.
		Joseph Conrad is one of my favourite writers - so often his philosophies, his points of view become my own.
	www.amazon.com /Nostromo-Everymans-Library-Joseph-Conrad/dp/0679409904 (2103 words)

	Conrad, Joseph. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1874, Conrad went to sea and later joined (1878) an English merchant ship, becoming (1884) a master mariner as well as a British citizen.
		Retiring from the merchant fleet in 1894, he began his career as a novelist, and all of his novels are written in English, an acquired language.
		Conrad was a skilled creator of atmosphere and character; the impact of various situations was augmented by his use of symbolism.
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	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Joseph Conrad - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It should be remembered that the lingua franca at that time was French, which was Conrad's second language, thus it is altogether remarkable that Conrad should write so fluently and effectively in his third language.
		Joseph Conrad died of a heart attack on August 3, 1924 and was interred in Canterbury Cemetery, Canterbury, England, with three mistakes in his name on the grave-stone.
		Leading this list was Joseph Conrad who had four of his books selected.
	www.kidsseek.com /encyclopedia-wiki/jo/Joseph_Conrad (416 words)

	Conrad, Joseph on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The ethic of sympathy in Conrad's Lord Jim and Eliot's The Mill on the Floss.(George Eliot, Joseph C...
		The method is unsound: the aesthetic dissonance of colonial justification in Kipling, Conrad, and Greene.
		The Joseph Conrad Society of America International Conference, Colgate University, August 1998: An Overview.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/conrad-j1.asp (595 words)

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