Conrad
JOSEPH an English novel- JOSEPH CONRAD young Conrad, then a boy of 13, wandered from Poland to Marseilles, France, to be a captain in the merchant service. where he joined a French vessel and rose Later he held an office on an English ship and late in life learned the English language. With this handicap he yet English and became one of the foremost his portrayal of the life of the modern English novelists. He is at his best in his sailors in the southeastern seas, his studies of the contact of the western European with the Oriental mind being extremely subtle and interesting. His most successful novels are "Gales of Unrest" tremely subtle and interesting. His most stories of sailor life in the East. Among (1898) and "Lord Jim" (1900), both stories of sailor life in the East. Among CONRADIN "The Mirror of the Sea" (1906); "Point of Honor" (1908); "Twixt Land and Sea" (New York, 1913); "Victory" (1917).