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
Nostromo
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is a novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". First serialized in monthly installments of T.P.'s Weekly, in 1998 it was r
Joseph Conrad
…Dominique Cervoni, whom Conrad befriended. Cervoni became the inspiration for some of Conrad's characters, such as the title character of the 1904 novel Nostromo. Conrad visited Corsica with his wife in 1921, partly in search of connections with his long-dead friend and fellow merchant seaman. In late 1877…
First US edition