Spookily topical - Guardian
J zef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine on 3 December 1857. His parents were Polish and had both died in exile by the time Conrad was eleven. His uncle then became his guardian and looked after him in Krakow until he was sixteen when he went to sea and sailed on French and British ships. He was made British citizen in 1886 and changed his name to Joseph Conrad. In 1889 Conrad visited the Congo and his experiences there inspired Heart of Darkness. In 1894 he published his first novel, Almayer's Folly and went on to write nineteen more as well as many short stories, essays and a memoir. In 1896 he married Jessie George and they later had two sons. Conrad died on 3 August 1924.
Perenially fascinating... When Joseph Conrad wrote The Secret Agent
he was responding imaginatively to a real botched bomb attack on
Greenwich, at a time when there was real panic about anarchist
extremism throughout Europe
*Guardian*
An astonishing book
*Ford Madox Ford*
This damp, dark thriller dances about on satirical feet, from its
opening paragraph to the very last, where it suddenly plunges like
Chernobyl's core to our own apocalyptic times, seamed with
petit-bourgeois envy and crazed fundamentalist dreams. Whether
attacking the former or the latter, Conrad never lets go of his
grim, twitchy smile.
*Guardian*
One of the two unquestionable classics of the first order that
[Conrad] added to the English novel
*F.R. Leavis*
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