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Conrad, Joseph

  1. A British author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He based many of his works, including and Lord Jim , on his adventures as a sailor.


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Below, the thick marshland and dim lights created a scene that Breman describes as “Joseph Conrad territory.”

Hills star Lauren Conrad just published her first novel but is it worthy of her literary forebear Joseph Conrad?

We sometimes wonder just how and what Joseph Conrad would have written if he had never gone to sea.

Rescue (Dent) is a story in the authentic manner of Mr. Joseph Conrad at his unapproachable best.

Hugh Walpole, himself a competent novelist, does far better in his little volume, "Joseph Conrad."

In their main outlines they are not unlike the fundamental assumptions of Joseph Conrad.

Joseph Conrad declared, “The dead can live only with the exact intensity and quality of the life imparted to them by the living.”

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