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| Name: |
Joseph Conrad | | Birth Date: |
December 3, 1857 | | Death Date: |
August 3, 1924 | | Place of Birth: |
Berdyczew, Poland | | Place of Death: |
England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, novelist |
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Biography of Joseph Conrad
19,918 words, approx. 66 pages
 Joseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to the more perplexed forms and values of twentiethcentury literature....
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Biography of Joseph Conrad
19,212 words, approx. 64 pages
 Joseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to the more perplexed forms and values of twentieth-century...
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Biography of Joseph Conrad
12,447 words, approx. 42 pages
 The short fiction of Joseph Conrad is central to his literary achievement. 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. His...



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Joseph Conrad Quotes
4,670 words, approx. 16 pages
 Joseph Conrad ( 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924 ) was a Polish-born English writer, regarded as one of the greatest English novelists. Contents 1 Works 2 Sourced 2.1 Youth, A Narrative (1902) 2.2 Nostromo (1904) 2.3 The Mirror of the Sea (1906) 2.3.1...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Conrad, Joseph
2,516 words, approx. 8 pages (born Dec. 3, 1857, Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Ukraine]—died Aug. 3, 1924, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.) English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent, whose works include the novels Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904),...
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Conrad, Joseph
199 words, approx. 1 pages (born Dec. 3, 1857, Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died Aug. 3, 1924, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.) Polish-British novelist and short-story writer. His father was a Polish patriot who was exiled to northern Russia, and Conrad was an orphan by age...
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Joseph Conrad Information
4,489 words, approx. 15 pages
 Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak...




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 The Economist (US)
Joseph Conrad.
06/29/1991: 424 words, approx. 1 pages JOSEPH CONRAD. By Jeffrey Meyers. Scribner's; 428,pages; $27.50. John Murray; [British pounds] 20 ON THE assembly line of Literary America Inc, Jeffrey Meyers is a diligent and prolific worker. He has already produced 30 books on modern literature. They include biographies of...
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 The Hudson Review
Joseph Conrad
01/01/2007: 12,979 words, approx. 43 pages I I never mean to be slow," Joseph Conrad wrote to David Meldrum of the Blackwood publishing house in 1899, but "The stuff comes out at its own rate . . . [and ] too often-alas!-I've to wait for the sentence-for the word."...
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 AP Features
Today in History
11/26/2007: 491 words, approx. 2 pages Today is Monday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2007. There are 28 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 3, 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who...
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 The New York Observer
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of September 10th, 2007
9/4/2007: 459 words, approx. 2 pages The raves for Denis Johnsonâs Tree of Smoke (FSG, $27) are entirely warranted. Need convincing? Our reviewer (see page C21) mentions a vivid description of a missionary priestâs last moments. Hereâs the passage in full: âHe turned and saw among the sago fronds a most...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Ted Billy
11,938 words, approx. 40 pages
 In the following essay, Billy provides an overview of the major thematic concerns and critical reception of Conrad's short stories.
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Critical Essay by John Lutz
7,452 words, approx. 25 pages
 In the following essay, Lutz contends that “Falk” illustrates Conrad's belief that under the competitive, ruthless capitalistic system, bourgeois class conventions are illusions and will inevitably break down into anarchy and savagery.
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Critical Essay by Douglas Kerr
7,433 words, approx. 25 pages
 In the following essay, Kerr elucidates the themes of age and life transition in three of Conrad's stories.


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Joseph Conrad by William Kotzwinkle | |
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