Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conradwas a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 December 1857
CountryPoland
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality
It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull
There is something haunting in the light of the moon.