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Joseph Conrad

Born

in Berdichev (formerly Poland), Ukraine

December 03, 1857

Died

August 03, 1924

Genre

Fiction

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Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski ) was a Polish-born English novelist who today is most famous for Heart of Darkness, his fictionalized account of Colonial Africa.

Conrad left his native Poland in his middle teens to avoid conscription into the Russian Army. He joined the French Merchant Marine and briefly employed himself as a wartime gunrunner. He then began to work aboard British ships, learning English from his shipmates. He was made a Master Mariner, and served more than sixteen years before an event inspired him to try his hand at writing.

He was hired to take a steamship into Africa, and according to Conrad, the experience of seeing firsthand the horrors of colonial rule left him a changed man.

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	Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 519,825 ratings — published 1899 — 2405 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lord Jim 3.62 avg rating — 31,417 ratings — published 1900 — 1190 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad, A. Michael Matin (Introduction) 3.77 avg rating — 23,446 ratings — published 1899	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Agent 3.59 avg rating — 23,088 ratings — published 1907 — 2047 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nostromo 3.81 avg rating — 17,092 ratings — published 1904 — 1750 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer 3.51 avg rating — 17,836 ratings — published 1910 — 135 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heart of Darkness and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad, Cedric Watts (Editor) 3.56 avg rating — 6,498 ratings — published 1990 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad, Jeremy Hawthorn (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.68 avg rating — 6,096 ratings — published 1916 — 853 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Sharer 3.62 avg rating — 5,480 ratings — published 1910 — 751 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Victory by Joseph Conrad, Robert Hampson (Editor) 3.84 avg rating — 3,981 ratings — published 1915 — 786 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 293 pages

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1951, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages

13 votes, 8.8%

1899, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 200 pages

12 votes, 8.2%

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1937, Out of Africa by Karen Blixen, 399 pages

9 votes, 6.1%

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6 votes, 4.1%

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