The Polish British author Joseph Conrad is widely known for his 1899 story Heart of Darkness, which is set in the colony of the Belgian Congo. But his seafaring profession also took him on extended ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most people hate “Heart of Darkness” the first time they read it. I certainly did, as a high school senior more than 40 years ago, hated everything from its corkscrew sentences to the way its narrator ...

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 ...