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Joseph Conrad
Berdichev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; December 2, 1857 – August 3, 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in…
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Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; December 2, 1857 – August 3, 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honour. Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the French and later the British Merchant Navy to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a worldwide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors. Films have been adapted from or inspired by Conrad's Victory, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, An Outcast of the Islands, The Rover, The Shadow Line, The Duel, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Almayer's Folly.
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2021
Lone Wolf
Movie Author
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2018
Heart of Darkness
Movie Writer
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2017
The Lost Valley
Movie Writer
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2016
The Young One
Movie Novel
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2016
The Secret Agent
TV show Novel
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2016
An Outpost of Progress
Movie Writer
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2014
Mountain of Gold
Movie Story
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2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
Secret Sharer
Movie Short Story
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2012
Almayer's Folly
Movie Novel
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2005
Gabrielle
Movie Novel
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2002
Lord Jim
Movie Novel
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1998
Swept from the Sea
Movie Novel
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1997
Nostromo
TV show Novel
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1996
Victory
Movie Novel
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1996
The Secret Agent
Movie Novel
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1994
Windigo
Movie Novel
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1994
Heart of Darkness
Movie Novel
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1992
The Secret Agent
Movie Novel
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1986
Morgen
Movie Story
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1982
An Outpost of Progress
Movie Short Story
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1980
Un reietto delle isole
Movie Novel
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1979
Apocalypse Now
Movie Novel
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1978
Naufragio
Movie Story
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1977
The Duellists
Movie Short Story
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1976
The Shadow-Line
Movie Story
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1975
The Secret Agent
Movie Novel
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1975
Her Return
Movie Short Story
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1975
The Saliva Milkshake
Movie Novel
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1974
Jutro
Movie Short Story
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1973
The Shadow Line
Movie Original Story
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1973
The End of the Tether
Movie Novel
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1973
Centre Play
TV show Novel
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1973
The Secret Sharer
Movie Short Story
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1972
Almayer's Folly
Movie Novel
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1967
Omnibus
TV show Self
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1965
Lord Jim
Movie Novel
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1958
Heart of Darkness
Movie Novel
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1955
Folio
TV show Writer
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1953
Laughing Anne
Movie Novel
