Mr. Conrad has no ideas, but he has a point of view, a “world”; it can hardly be defined, but it pervades his work and is unmistakable. —T. S. Eliot, “Kipling Redivivus” He [James] had a mind so fine ...

THE work of a writer may be said to resemble an iceberg. That part of it which is visible tempts us to explore the larger portion which remains obscure and hidden beneath the surface of the written ...

An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. The extraordinary and uncommonly influential literary career of Joseph Conrad began in ...

In his Portraits from Memory, Bertrand Russell ends his brief memoir of Joseph Conrad: Conrad, I suppose, is in process of being forgotten. But his intense and passionate nobility shines in my memory ...

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. By Maya Jasanoff. Penguin Press; 400 pages; $30. William Collins; £25. JOSEPH CONRAD was a phenomenon. Born to Polish parents in 1857 in a part of the ...

Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (1857-1925), otherwise known as Joseph Conrad, is best known for his short story Heart of Darkness, famously adapted by Francis Ford Coppola in Apocalypse Now. Though ...

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 ...

A historic London home once occupied by the Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad—whose novella “Heart of Darkness” inspired the 1979 epic film “Apocalypse Now”—is on the market for £1.7 million (US$2.3 ...