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    Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: [ˈjuzɛf tɛˈɔdɔr ˈkɔnrat kɔʐɛˈɲɔfskʲi] ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British...
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    Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his...
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  • Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) was a Polish-British novelist. Joseph Conrad may also refer to: Joseph Conrad (French colonel) (1788–1837), French colonel killed...
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  • Conrad Lafcadio Hall, ASC (June 21, 1926 – January 4, 2003) was a French Polynesian-born American cinematographer. Named after writers Joseph Conrad and...
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  • The works of Joseph Conrad encompass novels, short stories, nonfiction, and memoirs. Although he was born in Poland and spoke Polish and French fluently...
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    Equity, a drama teacher who was a fan of writer Joseph Conrad suggested the stage name of "Jess Conrad". Conrad was born in Brixton, South London and started...
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    Joseph Conrad is an iron-hulled sailing ship, originally launched as Georg Stage in 1882 and used to train sailors in Denmark. After sailing around the...
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    including Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad (French colonel) (1788–1837), killed at the Battle of Barbastro Joseph Conrad (general)...
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  • contributions to contemporary innovative poetry and the international study of Joseph Conrad. Robert Gavin Hampson was born in Liverpool in 1948. He studied English...
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  • more than 700 passengers aboard. The event later inspired the plot of Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim. The vessel was retrieved and continued to sail, later...
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    Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; Berdychiv, Ukraine, 3 December 1857  – 3 August 1924, Bishopsbourne, Kent, England) was a Polish...
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    Zdzisław Najder, Joseph Conrad: A Life, 2007, p. IX. Zdzisław Najder, Joseph Conrad: A Life, 2007, p. 524. Zdzisław Najder, Joseph Conrad: A Life, 2007,...
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    Peter Lind Hayes (born Joseph Conrad Lind Jr.; June 25, 1915 – April 21, 1998) was an American vaudeville entertainer and film and television actor. Hayes...
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  • Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam...
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    The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (category Novellas by Joseph Conrad)
    Children of the Sea, is an 1897 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad. The central character is an Afro-Caribbean man who is ill at sea while...
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  • Joseph Conrad (May 17, 1827 – July 16, 1897) was a Union American Civil War colonel who was nominated and confirmed in 1866 for appointment as a brevet...
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  • trader, also called Kurtz, from the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Walter Kurtz was a career officer in the United States Army; he was...
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  • of Iran. Rushdie began to use "Joseph Anton" as a pseudonym; Rushdie chose the alias to honor the writers Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov. The memoir also...
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    directly linked to the concept of empire. Said's first published book, Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography (1966), was an expansion of the doctoral...
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  • Charles Marlow (category Joseph Conrad characters)
    seaman and recurring character in the work of novelist Joseph Conrad. Marlow narrates several of Conrad's best-known works such as the novels Lord Jim (1900)...
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    'Twixt Land and Sea (category Works by Joseph Conrad)
    ‘Twixt Land and Sea is a collection of three works of short fiction by Joseph Conrad published in 1912 by J. M. Dent publishers. The three works in ‘Twixt...
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  • prose that the writers he references, including Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad, would appreciate." Carl Hoffman of The Washington Post described the...
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    Katharine (born 1900). Ford's neighbours in Winchelsea included the authors Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, W. H. Hudson, Henry James in nearby Rye, and H. G. Wells...
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  • Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) (category Joseph Conrad characters)
    Kurtz is a central fictional character in Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness. A trader of ivory in Africa and commander of a trading post...
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    great friend Joseph Conrad, who was also the 4th Earl's godfather. Educated at Eton (King's Scholar) and Merton College, Oxford, Conrad Russell was an...
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  • masterwork of the imagination, and comparing Erikson to the likes of Joseph Conrad, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Malazan world...
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    extraordinary assumption per work – dubbed "Wells's law" – leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 with "O Realist of the Fantastic!". His most notable...
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    Massachusetts Review, it featured criticism of Albert Schweitzer and Joseph Conrad, whom Achebe described as "a thoroughgoing racist." When the region...
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    The Secret Agent (category Novels by Joseph Conrad)
    The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc...
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    Nostromo (category Novels by Joseph Conrad)
    Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". It was originally published...
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