He wrote his best-known works in the years just before and after the turn of the century: Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), and Nostromo (1904). He quickly won critical praise, though financial success eluded him for many years and both he and his wife suffered serious illnesses. He published his first novel ( Almayer's Folly) in 1894. For the next eight years, Conrad continued to work as a sailor (even spending time commanding a steamship in the Belgian Congo), and continued to write. one of which described the hero lying sick to death in a native hut. It was about this time he changed his name to the more British-sounding Joseph Conrad and published his first short stories (he wrote in English, his third language after Polish and French). of observation to draw on I had an illuminating proof in Heart of Darkness.
own literary ancestry of course places him in the Romantic tradition of. Eventually, he began to sail on British ships, and became a British citizen in 1886, at the age of 29. in Marlow in Heart of Darkness, where Marlow is both the ( anti ) hero of.
At seventeen, he traveled to Marseilles and began to work as a sailor. Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was an orphan by the age of 12 his mother and father both died as a result of time the family spent in exile in Siberia for plotting against the Russian Tsar.
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