John Conrad

English novelist, short story writer, essayist, dramatist, and autobiographer. Conrad was

born in 1857 in a Russian-ruled Province of Poland. According to Jocelyn Baines, a literary

critic, "Conrad was exiled with his parents to northern Russia in 1863 following his his

parents participation in the Polish independence movement". (Baines 34). His parents' health

rapidly deteriorated in Russia, and after their deaths in 1868, Conrad lived in the homes of

relatives, where he was often ill and received spradic schooling (35). Conrad's birth-given

name was Jozef Tedor Konrad Valecz Korzeniowski, however, his name was legally

changed (39). Conrad died of a heart attack, August 3, 1924, in Bishopsbourne Kent,

England (34). With such an innovative style, Joseph Conrad was perhaps one of Britain's

most remarkable authors of modern English literature.

Throughout Conrad's career, his works have became influential as well as

remarkable. Cited by Ted E. Boyle, a short story analysis, "Conrad's novels are complex

moral and psychological examinations of ambiguous nature of good and evil" (Boyle 93).

psyche. The force behind the stillness in the lagoon sums equally real and inaccessible. As

changing and amiguous since the east "harbours both light and darkness, sunrise and the

novel. An account of a revolution in the fictitious South American country of Costaguana,