Born in 1857 in Poland, Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30. In the intervening years he lost both parents, becoming an orphan at 11, being thereafter raised by an uncle, who let the boy go to Marseille at age 16, where he began to work on merchant ships - which at times included stints of gun running and the intrigue of political conspiracy. At age 36 his life turned from one of ships to one of literary pursuit.
Conrad brought to English literature both a fresh layer of style and a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of works. He wrote many novels, which are correctly regarded today as some of the finest in English literature. Among their canon are Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Shadow Line, and of course Heart Of Darkness. In this audiobook we dwell among his numerous short stories and the heart of Joseph Conrad. These stories are read for you by Richard Mitchley.
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"Conrad, seperti yang terlihat diwajahnya, menunjukan ketetapan hati, bahkan semacam kekerasan. Dalam, bahkan aku bilang hampir seperti Dostoevsky. Bedanya, Conrad is an Englishman. Hmm akan menarik menyimak Conrad dan Thomas HArdy hadir bersama dan bercakap-cakap...." — Ivan (5 out of 5 stars)
"Conrad, seperti yang terlihat diwajahnya, menunjukan ketetapan hati, bahkan semacam kekerasan. Dalam, bahkan aku bilang hampir seperti Dostoevsky. Bedanya, Conrad is an Englishman. Hmm akan menarik menyimak Conrad dan Thomas HArdy hadir bersama dan bercakap-cakap...."
" Joseph Conrad = the man whose work affected me with seasickness and depression that would last some long years. But I might try his work again now that I think I've past that melancholy (sort of). "
Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) (1857–1924) was born in Ukraine. Raised by an uncle after the death of his parents, he educated himself by reading widely in Polish and French. At age twenty-one he began a long career sailing the seas on French merchant vessels, after which he went to London and began writing, using the romance and adventure of his own life for his incomparable sea novels.
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.
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