Joseph Conrad
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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 – though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties –
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, benefactor
Otago, the barque captained by Conrad in 1888 and first three months of 1889
The Secret Agent
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is an anarchist spy fiction novel by Polish–British author Joseph Conrad, first "printed as eleven installments in Ridgway's" and published in book form on 12 September
Joseph Conrad
…had its independence instantly recognized by the United States, and its economy underwritten by investment in the [fictional] San Tomé [silver] mine." The Secret Agent (completed 1906) was inspired by the French anarchist Martial Bourdin's 1894 death while apparently attempting to blow up the Greenwich Observatory…
First US edition cover
Royal Observatory, Greenwich c. 1902 as depicted on a postcard