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Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

For other uses, see Joseph Conrad (disambiguation).

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish:[ˈjuzɛftɛˈɔdɔrˈkɔnratkɔʐɛˈɲɔfskʲi]^ⓘ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.^{[2][note 1]} He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.^{[note 2]} He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable, and amoral world.^{[note 3]}

Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others,^{[note 4]} though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism.

His narrative style and anti-heroic characters