Asked by Ford Maddox Ford to contribute to a memorial supplement to the Transatlantic Review in honor of the recently deceased Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway groused about friends who disparaged ...

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) 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 ...

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), the famous Polish-born author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and The Secret Agent, among many other novels and short stories, is not a writer usually associated with ...

THE work and personality of Joseph Conrad have been approached by several routes, each holding a degree of difficulty as if the great writer was a mountain to be conquered or a sea to be successfully ...

Frederick R. Karl, a literary scholar known for his mammoth biographies of William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad and other figures, died of kidney disease April 30 in New York City. He was 77. Karl, a ...

In a quiet corner of the University of Notre Dame’s main library stands a bust of Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, better known by his pen name Joseph Conrad. On the base of the bust is an ...

In our guide to the classics series, experts explain key works of literature For me, no novel provides a better account of what we humans are up against in our pursuit of the true and the good than ...

The gleaming white skin and hairless head. The emaciated body carried out on a stretcher. The worshipful natives on every side, fulfilling even the most capricious commands. The almost spectral ...

Illiberalism in the country is alive and well. By Jaroslaw Kuisz and Karolina Wigura Maya Jasanoff’s book, “The Dawn Watch,” uses Conrad’s work to tell a story of globalization, imperialism and ...

To the newest generation of adult readers the dawn of a literary light is a rare experience. It is as if the courses of our literature were Arctic in their slowness, as if the day came at long ...