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Joseph Conrad

Joseph ConradAKA Józef Teodor Na?ecz Konrad Korzeniowki

Born: 3-Dec-1857
Birthplace: Berdichev, Ukraine
Died: 3-Aug-1924
Location of death: Canterbury, Kent, England
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Canterbury Cemetery, Canterbury, England

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Heart of Darkness

Father: Apollo Nalecz Korzeniowski (activist, d. 1869, in Siberian exile)
Mother: Eva Bobrowska (d. 1865 tuberculosis)
Wife: Jessie George (m. Mar-1896, until his death, four children)
Son: Borys Conrad

    University: St. Petersburg University

    Athenaeum Club (London)
    Suicide Attempt (Mar-1878)
    Shot: Self-Inflicted (Mar-1878)
    Naturalized UK Citizen 1886
    Risk Factors: Depression

Is the subject of books:
Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography, 1960, BY: Jocelyn Baines

Author of books:
Almayer's Folly (1895, novel)
An Outcast of the Islands (1896, novel)
The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (1897, novel)
Lord Jim (1900, novel)
Youth: A Narrative, and Two Other Stories (1902, short stories)
Typhoon and Other Stories (1903, short stories)
Nostromo (1904, novel)
The Mirror of the Sea, Memories and Impressions (1906, memoir)
The Secret Agent (1907, novel)
A Set of Six (1908, short stories)
Under Western Eyes (1911, novel)
Twixt Land and Sea (1912, short stories)
Some Reminiscences (1912, memoir, also called A Personal Record)
Chance (1914, novel)
Victory (1915, novel)
Within the Tides (1915, short stories)
The Shadow-Line: A Confession (1917, novel)
The Arrow of Gold (1919, novel)
The Rescue (1920, novel)
Notes on My Books (1921, nonfiction)
The Rover (1923, novel)
Tales of Hearsay (1925, short stories)
Last Essays (1926, essays)


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