Tag: Joseph Conrad

Secret Library

The Lesser Conrad: Notes on Under Western Eyes

In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle revisits one of Joseph Conrad’s less celebrated masterpieces The narrative style of Joseph Conrad’s 1911 novel Under Western Eyes is unusual. The narrator is not quite an omniscient third-person narrator (certainly, there is much he doesn’t know, as he […]

Literature

The Best Joseph Conrad Novels

The top ten best Joseph Conrad books, selected by Dr Oliver Tearle Joseph Conrad wrote numerous full-length novels, but what were Conrad’s best books? From his debut in 1895, Almayer’s Folly, to his final novel, Suspense (which he left unfinished – aptly, given the novel’s title – upon his death in 1924), Conrad’s […]

Literature

Five Fascinating Facts about Joseph Conrad

Five fun facts about Joseph Conrad, author of the classic novella Heart of Darkness 1. In his twenties, Conrad resolved to kill himself with a gun – but miraculously he survived. Joseph Conrad – born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in Russian-occupied Poland in 1857 – was a bit of a gambler in his […]