Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language; though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded 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's writer father, Apollo Korzeniowski
Nowy Świat 47, Warsaw, where three-year-old Conrad lived with his parents in 1861.
Tadeusz Bobrowski, Conrad's maternal uncle, mentor, and benefactor
Otago, the barque captained by Conrad in 1888 and first three months of 1889
Poles in the United Kingdom
British Poles, alternatively known as Polish British people or Polish Britons, are ethnic Poles who are citizens of the United Kingdom. The term includes people born in the UK who are of Polish descent and Polish-born people who reside in the UK. There are approximately 682,000 people born in Poland residing in the UK. Since the late 20th century, they have become one of the largest ethnic minorities in the country alongside Irish, Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Germans, and Chinese. The Polish language is the second-most spoken language in England and the third-most spoken in the UK after English and Welsh. About 1% of the UK population speaks Polish. The Polish population in the UK has increased more than tenfold since 2001.
Poland Street in London's Soho district (2015)
Stanislaus II Augustus, c. 1780 by Marcello Bacciarelli
Dulwich Picture Gallery, where the Polish art collection still remains
Chopin, soon to die, gave concerts in Britain in 1848.