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Joseph Conrad was calved successful Berdychiv, successful Russian-controlled Ukraine, successful an country that had erstwhile been Poland, arsenic Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski. When helium was eleven, some his parents died from tuberculosis. As a teenager, helium traveled to Marseille, wherever helium began his nautical career, moving connected archetypal French ships, past British ones. Though helium spoke Polish and French from childhood, and was exposed to galore English literate classics arsenic a child, helium did not statesman learning to talk English until helium was 21. Which did not, arsenic it turned out, forestall him from becoming 1 of the astir celebrated English writers of his generation.
Conrad would service 16 years with the British merchant navy, and helium would go an adept successful the English language, though helium would ever talk it with an accent. Around 1883, connected a voyage to Bombay, helium began penning letters successful his adopted tongue. On July 2 1886, helium applied for British citizenship, and connected August 19, 1866, helium became a citizen.
In 1895, erstwhile helium was 37, precocious retired from beingness astatine sea, he published his archetypal novel, Almayer’s Folly, utilizing his anglicized name, Joseph Conrad. He published with large frequence aft that—his enduring works including Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), and Under Western Eyes (1911)—until his decease successful 1924.
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