“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”

About Joseph Conrad

Author • British

Born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in the Russian Empire to Polish parents, Joseph Conrad became a master mariner before embarking on a literary career. He settled in England and became a British subject in 1886,...