Gaspar Ruiz

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Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak English well until he was in his 20s. He is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence and Graham Greene. Writing during the apogee of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the British Merchant Navy to create novels and short stories that reflected aspects of a world-wide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul. Amongst his best known works are Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Under Western Eyes (1911), Victory (1915) and The Rescue (1920).

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A Polish novelist, considered as one of the greatest contemporary English writers. He was brought up in Russian-occupied Poland. His father, an impoverished aristocrat, a writer, and a militant fighter, was arrested by the occupying regime for his patriotic activities, and was sentenced to penal servitude in Siberia. Shortly after this, his mother died of tuberculosis in exile, and despite his being allowed to return to Cracow, so did his father four years later. Subsequently Conrad was brought up by his uncle. Conrad abandoned his education at the age of 17 to become a seaman in the French merchant navy. He lived an adventurous, buccaneering life -- sailing off Marseilles and becoming involved in gunrunning and political conspiracy. In 1878, after an unsuccessful attempt at committing suicide, Joseph took service on a British ship in order to avoid French military service. He gained his Master Mariner's certificate, learned English before the age of 21, to finally become a naturalized Briton in 1884. He lived in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and later near Canterbury, Kent. His works include: Almayer's Folly - (1895), An Outcast of the Islands - (1896), The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' - (1897), Lord Jim - (1900), Heart of Darkness - (1902), Nostromo - (1904), The Secret Agent - (1907), Under Western Eyes - (1911), The Shadow Line - (1917), The Arrow of Gold - (1919),The Rescue - (1920), The Rover - (1923).

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