Who is Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 ? 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born British novelist, who became a British subject in 1886.

He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in EnglishMorton Dauwen Zabel, "Conrad, Joseph", Encyclopedia Americana, 1986 ed., vol. 7, p. 606. though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honor.

Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature."Poland." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 05 August 2009 While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature; his narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many subsequent authors.Authors who have been influenced by Conrad's works include Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Malcolm Lowry, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, V.S. Naipaul, Italo Calvino, Hunter S. Thompson and J. M. Coetzee.Literacka Nagroda Nobla (Nobel Literature Prize), "John Maxwell Coetzee (2003)." Films have been adapted from or inspired by Conrad's Victory, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, An Outcast of the Islands, The Duel, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo.

Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the French and later the British Merchant Navy to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a worldwide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul.

Joseph Conrad is a iron-hulled sailing ship, originally launched as the Georg Stage in 1882 and used to train sailors in Denmark, then bought in 1934 and renamed by Australian sailor and author Alan Villiers for a round-the-world cruise, and later used for training by the United States. Joseph Conrad is now a museum ship at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.